Aimee Betro flew to the UK to carry out the plot in Birmingham, which failed when the gun jammed, allowing the victim to escape.

POLICE officers seized e-bikes and e-scooters on a crackdown in Oxford. Thames Valley Police Oxford said "numerous" e-bikes and e-scooters were removed from the streets in Cowley and Rose Hill.

Business activity across the UK’s private sector has hit a one-year high this month, as the services industry led a summer rebound, according to new survey data. Firms nevertheless have been cutting ...

Chelsea have accepted a £26million offer from Villarreal for defender Renato Veiga, the PA news agency understands. The Portugal left-back is reported to have agreed a seven-year deal and his ...

An English tourist is in a critical condition after a serious assault in Temple Bar in Dublin city. Emergency services attended the scene of the incident in the Temple Bar Square area at around ...

The company, which operates about 610 hotels, saw revenues slip by 3.2 to £471.3 million for the six months to June 30.

The number of asylum seekers being housed temporarily in UK hotels has risen by 8% under Labour on the same point last year, according to newly published data.

A young shepherd set the baa high with her GCSE results when she arrived to collect them with her sheep, Kevin. Milly Johnson, 16, who has won awards for sheep-handling, brought along the North ...

London and south-east England have seen larger year-on-year falls in the GCSE pass rate than all other regions, the 2025 exam figures show. Some 71.6% of entries in London were awarded grade 4 or ...

A man has been identified after an alleged sex assault on a bus. As reported, police released a CCTV image of a man who may have vital information about the incident on the X2 bus at Didcot Parkway on ...

Russian forces launched more than 600 drones and missiles overnight, striking an American electronics factory in the west of Ukraine.

Historically, experts classified giraffes as a single species with nine subspecies, but that has been overturned by the new classification.