Anyone who assists someone to self-harm – such as by giving them a blade or pills – could face up to five years in prison under plans for a new offence. Ministers are seeking to broaden the law to ...

An 87-year-old man was attacked in the street and left for dead for the sake of a box of cornflakes and a shepherd’s pie, a court has heard. John Mackey had visited a north London Co-op store where he ...

Marks and Spencer customers have been urged to “stay vigilant” for scams and fraud after the retailer confirmed some personal data had been stolen in a cyber attack on the firm. M&S said on Tuesday ...

The lengthy wait for a new archbishop of Canterbury to lead the Church of England has been branded “staggering” in comparison to the Catholic Church’s speedy election of a new Pope. Conservative MP ...

The family of a young policewoman who was found dead after a night out in Kavos in 2023 face at least another six-month wait for answers. Hannah Byrne, 22, had been out on the first night of her ...

The wife of a senior Cabinet minister has objected to a proposed redevelopment near their north London home amid a Government push to sweep aside “blockers” in the planning system. Dame Justine ...

Transport for London (TfL) has been criticised for poor communication after a power outage caused disruption to its train services on Monday. Watchdog London TravelWatch (LTW) said the organisation ...

A woman whose terminally ill father chose an assisted death in Canada says he was a “hero”, as she campaigns for a change in the law in Scotland. Fiona Anderson’s father John Bird had stage four ...

New DNA evidence is “sufficient fundamentally to cast doubt on the safety of the conviction” of a man who has spent 38 years in prison for murder, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has told the ...

The King is to host French President Emmanuel Macron on a state visit to the UK from July 8-10, Buckingham Palace has announced. The French leader and his wife Brigitte Macron will stay at Windsor ...

A Paris court on Tuesday found actor Gerard Depardieu guilty of having sexually assaulted two women on a 2021 film set, sentencing him to an 18-month suspended prison sentence. The actor, 76, was ...

Yvette Cooper has defended Sir Keir Starmer amid criticism that his language as he set out plans to crack down on migration echoed Enoch Powell’s infamous “rivers of blood” speech. The Home Secretary ...