Avon and Somerset Police said the incident occurred at about 11pm on Monday evening, with the teenager dying at the scene. The M5 is closed in both directions between junctions 24 (Bridgwater) and 25 ...

A DRIVER clocked speeding has been hit with a £100 court penalty. Carol Green, of Ashley Road, Wilmslow, admitted exceeding a 30mph speed limit at Warrington Magistrates’ Court on October 31. The ...

North Korea’s rubber-stamp parliament, the Supreme People’s Assembly, has the right to ratify treaties but Kim can unilaterally ratify major ones, according to South Korea’s Unification Ministry.

Mr Waltz is an ardent Trump advocate who backed efforts to overturn the 2020 election. He is considered hawkish on China, and called for a US boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing due to its ...

MPs are to consider calls to remove the Church of England bishops from the House of Lords and introduce a mandatory retirement age for peers. Conservative former minister Sir Gavin Williamson has ...

Singer-songwriter Rebecca Ferguson and ex-footballer Graeme Souness will also be recognised at the investiture ceremony.

The Daily Express, The Times and the Daily Mail all splash on a senior bishop’s call for Mr Welby to step down after a damning report concluded his failure to act meant a “prolific” abuser was never ...

Mark Stibbe, who was abused by John Smyth QC in the 1980s, called for all senior clergy ‘that did nothing but knew what was going on’ to ...

A once-a-day pill that could help tens of thousands of people give up cigarettes and prevent thousands of smoking-related deaths each year will be rolled out on the health service, NHS England’s chief ...

Chief inspector of prisons Charlie Taylor said the smell of rat urine was “overpowering” in some areas of HMP Rochester in Kent.

The proportion of people dying in poverty has risen by almost a fifth in recent years, according to analysis for an end-of-life charity. More than 111,000 people are estimated to have died in poverty ...

The Country Land and Business Association claims farmers will have to pay more than their profits are worth in tax, and may need to sell their land.