The Government decision comes after experts recommended indefinite restrictions while work is done to ensure the safety of children and young people.

The Queen got into the festive spirit by helping to light a Christmas pudding during a lunch for volunteers and joked – “hold on to your hair”.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz has formally set Germany on course for an early election by requesting a confidence vote in parliament next week.

Contraband is brought in to prisons in “children’s nappies” and through the use of “drone drops” by organised criminal gangs, MPs have been told. This came as prisons minister Lord Timpson called for ...

Prisons in England and Wales will run out of space despite Government plans to build four more jails, the Justice Secretary admitted.

ITV has announced it will launch new show The Assembly following a BBC pilot featuring actor Michael Sheen earlier this year. Each episode will see a different celebrity face questions from a group of ...

Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said many family farms felt the changes announced in the budget would be ‘the final blow’.

Transgender women will be banned from playing in the female category in most domestic tennis competitions in Britain from next month.

Apple Intelligence, the iPhone maker’s first range of generative AI tools, are now available to users in the UK.

There was no evidence of police collusion in the original investigation into the 1978 La Mon House Hotel bombing, a report from the Police Ombudsman has said. The report also said there had been an ...

Coles, journalist Jane Moore and presenter Declan Donnelly have returned to the UK, with the rest of the cast expected in due course.

Ireland will be asking the ICJ to broaden its interpretation of what constitutes genocide. The Irish Government also approved an intervention in The Gambia’s case against Myanmar, also under the ...