It comes after National Education Union teacher members in England suggested they would be willing to take action over pay.

The plug has been pulled on a project to develop more farmland in a Norfolk village as concerns are raised by neighbours and councillors.

A 43-year-old man has been questioned on suspicion of murder and released on bail as police probe fatal Worksop blast ...

Actress Cate Blanchett has said she is “serious about giving up acting” as there are “lots of things I want to do with my life”. The 55-year-old is preparing to star in her first radio drama in BBC ...

The duchess also spoke about her experience of miscarriage and having to ‘let something go that you plan to love for a long time’.

Ministers have taken control to ensure supplies such as coking coal and iron ore reach the site after talks with its Chinese owner broke down.

Bin strikes could “absolutely” spread beyond Birmingham, a union boss has warned as a dispute between refuse workers and the city’s council drags on.

An Israeli airstrike hit the northern gate of a field hospital in the Gaza Strip, killing a medic and wounding nine other people, a spokesman for the hospital said. Tuesday’s strike hit the Kuwaiti ...

A second US aircraft carrier is operating in Mideast waters ahead of the next round of talks between Iran and the United States over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear programme, satellite photos ...

The Guttmacher Institute, a research organisation that supports abortion, estimates in a report that the overall number of clinician-provided abortions in states where it is legal rose by less than 1% ...

The availability of jobs worsened further, with vacancy numbers dropping to 781,000 for the three months to March, the ONS said.

Plans to build another bungalow in a broadband close have been given the green light by a council officials despite causing a stir with neighbours.