Britain is paying the “going rate as a tenant for… the best defensive real estate in the whole Indian Ocean”, a former Foreign Office chief has said as he backed the Chagos Islands deal that is set to ...

Dom Sibley’s titanic triple century powered Surrey to a club-record 820 for nine as Durham felt the heat with the Kookaburra ball in the Rothesay County Championship. Resuming on 169, Sibley, who made ...

Carlos Alcaraz rushed to help a spectator who collapsed during his opening match at Wimbledon, pausing play on Centre Court as temperatures soared. The defending champion handed over a bottle of water ...

Nine people smugglers have been jailed in France for their involvement in a small boat crossing over the English Channel that left four people dead and four others missing. Home Secretary Yvette ...

Lisa Nandy has hit out at the leadership of the BBC over its decision not to pull the live stream of Bob Vylan’s Glastonbury performance. The Culture Secretary said “several” editorial failures ...

Plaques have been unveiled on the statues of slave traders in London which reveal the “enormous wrongdoings” of the men as part of a new project to reinterpret them. The City of London Corporation has ...

The Government’s U-turn on welfare cuts will cost taxpayers around £2.5 billion by 2030, the Work and Pensions Secretary has told MPs as she laid out concessions to Labour rebels. Liz Kendall said the ...

Food delivery firms will ramp up facial verification and fraud checks in the next 90 days to crack down on illegal working after talks with ministers. Deliveroo, Uber Eats and Just Eat met with Home ...

New images have been released of Mike Lynch’s superyacht after the wreckage of the vessel was recovered for the salvage mission. Seven people died when the Bayesian sank off Sicily on August 19 ...

Potential jurors in the trial of two brothers accused of assaulting police officers at Manchester Airport have been told not to seek out information about the case. Footage of the disturbance at the ...

Three Scottish brothers attempting to become the fastest people to row across the Pacific have received a second call of support from Hollywood star Mark Wahlberg. Ewan, Jamie and Lachlan Maclean are ...

A coroner has told a care home it suffers from a “cultural problem” after a patient died shortly after falling from her bed twice in the space of a week. Sonia Sore, 84, fell onto the floor at North ...