Overcrowding in prisons in England and Wales has contributed to soaring reoffending rates, with staff too overburdened to help offenders prepare for life on the outside. 

After a drubbing in the local elections and with migrants continuing to cross the Channel in small boats, the government is set to unveil its plan to reduce migration numbers on Monday. 

The events in Kashmir have ramifications here in the UK, not least in Bradford, where more than a quarter of people identify as Pakistani. 

We report from Doncaster where the council is now controlled by Reform.

Kevin Martin is the head of Tree collections at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew - he spoke to us earlier from a digital installation around one of their ancient oaks.

Rafael Jodar, the No 27 seed in Paris, was at the center of fierce controversy on Friday when footage emerged of him appearing to push a ball girl out of his way at Roland-Garros .

Bill Gates told his employees that he regretted having a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, but it only did so much after a slew of allegations came out in the files.

I used to worship Tony Blair. I once bought a fawn-coloured suit because that's what Tony had taken to wearing, in radical defiance of Westminster convention.

The disgraced SNP chief executive splurged on the essentials as his now estranged wife urged Scots to 'apply common sense' when lockdown loomed in March 2020.

Who is the most consequential British politician of our age? It is surely Nigel Farage. Without his tireless campaigning there would have been no Brexit referendum.

MI5 has warned that espionage methods allegedly being used by Chinese intelligence include fake LinkedIn accounts, emails and gifts – with secret activities controlled from Beijing

Chathurika Goonawardane, who teaches computer science students in Manchester, has been left stranded in a Crete hospital with serious injuries after a horror quad bike cliff fall

Secret agents operating for China are feared to have contacted as many as 200,000 Brits in an attempt to mine secret information for their masters in Beijing

Keir Starmer's future continues to hang in the balance as another Labour MP joined the growing number of calls for him to leave while she was out campaigning for his probably replacement

A 13-year-old girl has died after being pulled from the River Wharfe near Burnsall, Skipton, on Sunday evening — the second Yorkshire teenager to die in open water within a week

It's only a couple of months or so since I was last in Cuba, and conditions then were pretty dire: power cuts, large queues for bread and fuel, state-run grocery stores virtually empty, mounting piles of rubbish on street corners, and few foreign vis...

Rugby league legend John Kear has died "suddenly", a day after commentating on the Challenge Cup final.

A 13-year-old girl has died after being rescued from a river, as the number of deaths in open water in the UK over the last eight days reached 17, following a record-breaking May heatwave. 

There has been a sharp decline in the use of vapes in the UK a year on from the government ban on single-use devices - but campaigners have warned that millions are still being binned.

A new pill helped to double the survival time for patients with an advanced and aggressive form of pancreatic cancer when compared to chemotherapy, a trial has found.

A government spokesperson says the documents "will be among the largest publications ever laid in Parliament".

BBC Panorama has seen documents and spoken to former midwives from Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.

Police say the girl went missing in the river close to the Yorkshire Dales village of Burnsall.

Beth Littlewood says driving from Germany for a meeting with her no-show boss was the "final straw".

Former England and Wales rugby league coach, and renowned broadcaster, John Kear has died at the age of 71.

People are still putting cheap item in their household bins - risking fines and new '£5 rule' campaign is starting

News of a possible takeover emerged on Friday afternoon.

The UK discount shop is shutting down as liquidators have been appointed and final sales are launched

This stretch of the motorway is expected to remain closed for several hours.

A woman in her 60s was treated at the scene but was sadly pronounced dead at hospital. A man, also in his 60s, was taken to hospital, where he remains critical.

Next month’s prize draw is imminent

Text messages between the Labour peer and Sir Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff Morgan McSweeney are said to be included

Labour’s support amongst union members has plummeted by 20 points since the general election

Gary MacDonald delivered parcels to stores across Lakeside Shopping Centre in Essex for more than 30 years

London commuters may need to change their travel plans ahead of the action planned for Tuesday and Thursday