Shabana Mahmood was accused of ‘tinkering around the edges’ over potential reform of the European Convention on Human Rights.

Angela Rayner stood down from her roles as deputy prime minister, housing secretary, and Labour deputy leader in a row over tax paid on her seaside home, and Lord Peter Mandelson was sacked as ...

Nine fines for breaching the Public Spaces Protection Order were issued by officers in Basildon Town Centre during patrols over the weekend ...

Daniel Ryan, 38, of Goldhanger Cross, Basildon, has been remanded into custody, accused of raping an unconscious woman.

Weight loss jabs could be effective on children as young as six who are obese or have type 2 diabetes, researchers suggest. However, stomach problems were “significantly more common” among youngsters ...

A driver has admitted causing the death of a taxi passenger in a crash in Leicester. Donna Brighton, 60, from the city, died after the taxi she was travelling in collided with a silver Vauxhall Astra ...

Mark Francois firmly denies he will defect from the Conservative Party, amid suggestions that he will join Reform ...

Emile Cairess admits the Tokyo heat got the better of him after pulling out of the men’s marathon with just 2.5 miles to go at the ...

The Prime Minister sacked Lord Mandelson last week but has faced questions about his judgment in appointing the peer, whose friendship with Epstein was public knowledge, in the fi ...

Plans for hundreds of homes as part of plans to regenerate a notorious Essex estate could be taken over by the council after a housing ...

Aristocrat Constance Marten and her convicted rapist partner have been jailed for 14 years for killing their newborn baby while on the run. Marten, 38, and Mark Gordon, 51, were in hiding when their ...

The East Wiltshire MP has quit Kemi Badenoch’s party and was unveiled as Nigel Farage’s latest recruit at a press conference.