The UK competition watchdog has launched an investigation into the proposed takeover of NHS landlord Assura. Last month, rival healthcare property firm PHP (Primary Health Properties) put forward a ...

Bridget Phillipson will decry ‘a national scandal’ when she speaks at a Government regional improvement conference on Friday.

Sir Keir Starmer said he has a good relationship with US President Donald Trump because they both “care about family”. The Prime Minister told the BBC Radio 4 podcast Political Thinking With Nick ...

Pop star Katy Perry and British actor Orlando Bloom have split, several media outlets reported. The pair “have been shifting their relationship over the past many months to focus on co-parenting” and ...

More than 500 towns across England and Wales have signed up to the Home Office’s safer streets summer initiative, which will run to September 30 ...

Mourners are set to gather to honour Liverpool footballer Diogo Jota at a wake in Portugal on Friday morning, a local parish priest has said. Jota and his younger brother, Andre Silva, died in a car ...

Michael Madsen, whose menacing characters in Reservoir Dogs and Kill Bill made him a standout performer in Quentin ...

Thousands of tourists, hotel workers and residents have been evacuated from the Ierapetra area on Crete’s southern coast.

The St Benedict Beer Festival will be held on July 12, from noon to 10pm at St Mark’s Church, Church Place, Swindon. The festival will have more than 20 different beers and ciders. Other food and ...

Police swooped to arrest a man following a “disturbance” on a busy Swindon road. Nearly a dozen officers were called to Queen’s Drive near Burger King at around 10pm on Monday, June 30. They were ...

A man has been arrested and released after a huge emergency service response cordoned off a town centre car park.

The group will perform Much Ado About Nothing in the gardens of Cleeve House, Melksham, from July 7 to 12. Set in the English Civil War, Shakespeare Live described the show as "a joyous mixture of ...