A new law coming into force in September means parents in England should have to buy fewer branded items of school uniform, ...

A widow who works as a housemaid in Maharashtra's Sambhajinagar district, she signed documents with a thumbprint and had ...

The government scheme knocks £150 off bills if you are on means-tested benefits such as universal credit. Millions of people ...

Several hundred pages of secret police and court documents, shared with the BBC, set out the evidence suggesting special ...

With wildfires now widespread and frequent, some rural residents in Canada are learning how to fight the flames themselves ...

On top of the already planned changes, Burnham is also vowing to end shops' use of "pretend prices". This will stop retailers ...

After opening in Shakespeare's home town, the RSC will hope it can go on to replicate the success of other spin-off plays ...

Three-year-old Ophelia-May predominately uses a wheelchair after being diagnosed with SMA type 2 last year Parents of ...

Sixty years since the Aberfan disaster, victims of major tragedies such as the Manchester Arena bombing say they still face a ...

Nigeria's army has said it safely rescued 33 people after they were kidnapped by armed men while travelling through the ...

Firefighters are tackling a vehicle fire which has closed a stretch of main road through the New Forest in Hampshire.

Firefighters are tackling a large blaze currently burning at a landfill site in Oxfordshire. Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue ...