Two of the 37 police & crime commissioner results for England and Wales have been declared so far, with Labour gaining Cumbria from the Conservatives and the Tories holding Lincolnshire.

Police have arrested more than 2,100 people during pro-Palestinian protests at college campuses across the United States in recent weeks, sometimes using riot gear, tactical vehicles and flash-bang ...

My partner Carl and I started fostering last year with Essex County Council, it’s something I feel passionate about and I’ve always wanted to do. Before fostering, I was a paediatric nurse and mental ...

The 70-year-old, from Southend, is helping spearhead the campaign to get compensation for thousands of Essex women whose lives were turned ...

The Tories held Broxbourne while Labour held Sunderland, but elsewhere in the north-east they lost wards to independents in South Tyneside – where there have been problems with bin collections – and ...

Kirsty Bowks couldn’t believe her eyes when Love Island star Olivia Bowen included her arty brand on a list of the UK’s best wedding vendors ...

The Official Royal Harpist, Alis Huws, has signed a record deal with Decca Classics. The Welsh-born musician performed at the King’s coronation at Westminster Abbey last year, playing an arrangement ...

The Conservative government does not understand “the value of school leadership”, a union leader will claim. Paul Nowak, general secretary of the TUC, will say the job of school leaders has been made ...

Rishi Sunak is braced for a difficult set of election results which could increase pressure on his leadership of the Conservative Party and the country after polls closed on Thursday night.

Labour is confident it will win the Blackpool South parliamentary by-election as Rishi Sunak braced for a difficult set of results in local contests across England.

Foreign Secretary Lord David Cameron said Ukraine ‘absolutely has the right’ to strike targets inside Vladimir Putin’s Russia ...

Regarded as Ireland’s most prestigious university, Trinity College Dublin fined its undergraduate student union 214,285 euro after a series of demonstrations about fees and rent ...