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.

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 ...

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 ...

US President Donald Trump could meet in person with Russian President Vladimir Putin as soon as next week as he seeks to broker an end to the Russia-Ukraine war, a White House official said.

Kemi Badenoch said she was still a ‘cultural Christian’ but had ‘rejected God’ after revelations about the Austrian sex offender.

Findings from more than 1,000 questionnaires as part of a year-long social consultation by the project, led by The Lifescape Project in partnership with Northumberland Wildlife Trust and The Wildlife ...

The band, who play Murrayfield this weekend, performed at the Edinburgh stadium in 2009 and proved to be a real ‘shakermaker’.

A set of 10 stamps from Royal Mail will pay tribute to “one of Britain’s most influential and enduring comedy troupes” – Monty Python. The main collection of six stamps celebrates characters from ...

Almost one in five (19%) of doctors are considering quitting being a doctor in the UK, the General Medical Council (GMC) said. And one in eight (12%) are considering leaving the UK to work abroad, ...

The paper said: “Around one in four councils would see real-terms falls in overall funding under the Government’s proposals, with around 30 on the lowest funding floors seeing real-terms cuts of 11–12 ...

A British man has been charged by US police with the attempted murder of his daughter-in-law after allegedly trying to drown her in a swimming pool while on holiday, local authorities said.

Saturday’s lottery jackpot will be an estimated £7.3 million after no players won Wednesday’s top prize. The winning Lotto numbers were 17, 31, 47, 05, 58 and 09, while the bonus number was 35.