A “rare” first edition of JRR Tolkien book The Hobbit discovered during a house clearance in Bristol has sold at auction for £43,000. It is one of only 1,500 copies printed in September 1937, ...

A meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump would be their first since Mr Trump returned to office this year.

The first detentions came as people arrived in Dover on Wednesday, the first day the pilot scheme came into force.

ENGINEERS have been called after an "unexpected" power cut has hit parts of the town. Residents in several postcodes, mostly across the WA9 area, have been affected this morning, Thursday. Scottish ...

Laurie, best known for his roles in Blackadder and House, will portray Hogwarts headmaster Albus Dumbledore, while Macfadyen, who recently starred in the new Deadpool, takes on the antagonist Lord ...

Wednesday have spiralled into a deepening crisis this summer and are currently under various EFL-imposed embargoes for financial breaches.

An emergency alert drill in a month’s time “will be one of the biggest public safety exercises” in UK history, a Cabinet minister has said. Pat McFadden said mobile phone alerts could save lives ...

Woakes was suffering from a suspected dislocated shoulder sustained in trying to prevent a boundary on day one.

The group reported pre-tax profits tumbling to £98 million for the six months to June 30, down from £338 million a year earlier.

The average house price jumped by 0.4% or more than £1,000 in cash terms in July, Halifax has reported. Across the UK, the average property value in July was £298,237, up from £297,157 in June.

Because of record global heat in 2023 and 2024, the world is still going through its biggest – and fourth ever recorded – mass coral bleaching event on record, with heat stress hurting nearly 84% of ...

Mr Trump has promoted the tariffs as a way to reduce the persistent trade deficit. But importers sought to avoid the taxes by importing more goods before the taxes went into effect. As a result, the ...