Scottish soldiers have kept a wartime tradition going as they continued their annual blanket-decorating competition while deployed abroad. Soldiers from 4th Battalion, the Royal Regiment of Scotland ...

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has issued a yellow cold health alert which lasts until noon on December 27 for south-west England.

The period between Christmas and the New Year (or ‘Twixmas’, as it’s become known) is often a bit of a limbo phase when nothing really ...

Two men have been arrested on suspicion of murder after a 30-year-old man was stabbed to death on Christmas Day. Police were called just after 3.30am on Thursday to Burcot Avenue, Wolverhampton, where ...

A number of Christmas and Boxing Day swims in Devon and Cornwall were cancelled this year because of a yellow weather warning for wind.

Two men are believed to be missing in the water off a beach in Devon, after a number of people were reported to be in difficulty. Emergency services were called to Budleigh Salterton at 10.25am on ...

New data has revealed Cumberland's top performing primary schools, with an academy in Wigton topping the charts.

Press Association photographers snapped festive revellers enjoying a Christmas swim and fans who flocked to see the royal family attend church.

The annual Christmas broadcast is written by the King and is the rare occasion when he does not turn to the Government for advice.

The royal family has marked Christmas Day by attending their traditional church service as the nation celebrated the festive season’s highpoint. Led by the King and Queen they walked the short ...

WHILE the wrapping paper piles up and the turkey goes in for 'just another 20 minutes' , Westmorland and Furness Council has reminded residents there will be no kerbside bin collections today ...

The incoming Archbishop of Canterbury has warned in her Christmas Day sermon that “our national conversations about immigration continue to divide us, when our common humanity should unite us”. Dame ...