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.

Ministers have agreed that the Employment Rights Bill will be implemented from January 2027 instead of October that year.

The teacher, who chose to remain anonymous, was suspended and sacked after he reprimanded students for washing their feet in the sinks in the boys' toilets, is is reported.

Junead Ahmed, 36, who used a fake court order to escape prison after he was locked up for pretending to be a doctor has been jailed once again. 

Kyiv is under pressure from the White House to agree to a peace deal, while trying to counterbalance a US-backed draft proposal that has been widely viewed as favourable to Moscow.

Mia O'Brien, 23, was arrested and jailed for possessing and supplying cocaine in the Middle Eastern city last October.

Hard-working Tom Boyd - who has severe autism - put in 600 hours of voluntary work at his local Waitrose in Cheadle Hulme, Greater Manchester, but was let go when his mum asked for a few paid hours

A new survey shows the top 10 Christmas stresses - and it's not good news for Brits who are feeling the pressure

Two Afghan asylum seekers who raped a petrified 15-year-old girl in a Leamington Spa park have been jailed for 10 years and eight months and nine years and 10 months

The overwhelming majority of British children fear that Santa won't be able to visit their home this year because there's way easy way for the great man to access the property

Early human ancestors might have looked up and seen the bright balls of gas searing through the skies, as astronomers believe they were so close they would have been clearly visible from Earth

Victims of maternity failings say they are "disappointed" by the findings of an interim report they fear will have "no teeth" to make changes. 

With more than a thousand troops being killed or wounded every day, there's no sign that Donald Trump's push to end Russia's war in Ukraine is reducing the battles on the ground.

The head of the Royal Navy has warned the government to "step up" and fund defence or risk losing the UK's superiority in the Atlantic to Russia.

Malaysia Airlines has been ordered by a Beijing court to pay more than £300,000 to the families of eight passengers on missing flight MH370.

Illegal number plates and lax rules about who can sell them are threatening national security and putting road users at risk, according to a report.

An interim report by Baroness Amos finds poor care and dirty wards are blighting England’s maternity services.

Seven out of 11 patients with incurable cancer who had the treatment appear to be cancer-free.

The new red, white and blue branding mirrors the colours of the Union Flag, and will start to appear from next year.

Warnings come into force as strong winds and rain sweep across the UK.

The Scottish Episcopal Church says grounds for a risk assessment of Anne Dyer were considered before she returned from suspension.

"Pre-Budget jitters" dented a hoped for Black Friday retail boost, a business lobby group says.

Affected customers can return the item to the supermarket without a receipt.

A 'drifted' strain from the H3N2 family is driving a huge surge in infections.

Health officials have warned that the NHS is bracing for a "tidal wave" of infections linked to a new strain of the H3N2 virus.

At present the London Mayor oversees Britain's biggest police force but a new study said those powers should be stripped.

A has been charged with raping two 14-year-old girls in a flat in Bolton.

British officials said they were hopeful a deal would be agreed to unlock the value of immobilised Russian sovereign assets in the coming days

HMRC suggest 3.3 million people will be impacted by the salary sacrifice changes

Prime minister has insisted Labour will not break its election pledge not to rejoin the customs union

The train design will gradually be rolled out across a number of publicly owned train operators