The ONS said the unemployment rate rose to 5% in the three months to September, up from 4.8% in the three months to August.

Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy is also expected to make a statement in the Commons on the issues facing the BBC.

Most of the problem – more than 80 per cent of it anyway – lays with the so-called People cluster: health and social care, ...

Scotland’s justice secretary has said 139 prisoners will be released early this week in the latest batch of releases aimed at ...

BBC chairman Samir Shah apologised for an ‘error of judgment’ over the editing of a speech by Donald Trump for Panorama.

Engineering is “not as scary as it seems” according to an award-winning young female Dounreay worker who has just won a top ...

Catherine Connolly will be inaugurated as Ireland’s 10th president on Tuesday at a ceremony at Dublin Castle. The independent TD from Galway, who is a former psychologist and barrister, has pledged to ...

A High Court judge is to rule on whether an Essex council is successful in its bid for an injunction that would block asylum ...

Remembrance services and events are set to take place around Scotland to mark Armistice Day. At Edinburgh Garden of ...

A group of 75 MPs has joined animal welfare activists in calling for the release of 15 penguins “trapped in a basement ...

An independent commission also said the current definition of terrorism is too broad and creates ‘uncertainty and overreach ...