A major rescue operation is under way north-east of the Italian city of Bergamo to free a woman considered an expert spelunker who was trapped while exploring a cave with eight others. Ottavia Piana ...

Businesses said increases in the cost of employing people plus falling confidence were making it harder to recruit new staff.

A 12-year-old girl has appeared in court charged with the manslaughter of pensioner Bhim Kohli, who died after an alleged attack while walking his dog in a park near his home. Mr Kohli, aged 80, died ...

Here, the PA news agency looks who Mr Kretinsky is and what the new ownership could mean for the historic British company.

Plans to transform a disused care home into flats have been refused. A bid to transform Felmingham Old Rectory care home into 20 residential flats has been thrown out by North Norfolk District Council ...

Stephen Cottrell is due to take on many of the soon-to-step-down Archbishop of Canterbury’s official functions temporarily from early January.

Concerns are growing over new models coming to market that are driving up the waste crisis as the incoming ban on single-use vapes looms.

The “malignant culture” of the Post Office destroyed the lives of the victims of the Horizon IT scandal, not the system itself, an inquiry has heard. The Horizon IT Inquiry was told the Post Office’s ...

Critics of the Beijing government warned that the activities of the suspect known as H6 were the ‘tip of the iceberg’.

A man from Blakeney in north Norfolk has come face to face with a highly threatened, red-listed woodcock in his garden in Blakeney, north Norfolk.

Three flood alerts have been issued along the River Bure and in the Hundred Foot Washes with the government warning people to be prepared.

Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds said the Government had secured a raft of legally-binding commitments with Mr Kretinsky’s EP Group.