Selby beat Shaun Murphy 18-15 at the Crucible in Sheffield to collect £500,000 in prize money. A fourth world triumph took 37-year-old Selby to within three Crucible crowns of Stephen Hendry’s record ...

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.

Labour’s newest MP said the people of Blackpool South have “spoken for Britain” as the party secured a resounding by-election victory. On Friday, Chris Webb became the first locally-born MP to ...

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 ...

Labour has won the Blackpool South parliamentary by-election and made gains in council contests to heap pressure on Rishi Sunak. In the contest triggered by the resignation of former Tory MP Scott ...

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 ...

A RAT-infested fly-tip next to Billericay Station could see council bosses take enforcement action after mattresses and radiators were dumped on the land. Basildon Council has ordered the landowner to ...

MPs are being urged to publicly back a multi-million pound scheme to improve the A127 and help secure funding for the project – which includes finally straightening the Fortune of War. Essex Highways ...

THE owner of a Turkish restaurant has vowed to make major improvements after it was hit with a one-out-of-five food hygiene rating. Major concerns have been raised after out-of-date food, issues with ...

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 ...

Counting is under way in 35 of the 107 councils in England that held elections on Thursday, with most of the remaining local authorities due to start counting later on Friday. Three years ago Labour ...