Tory leadership hopeful Robert Jenrick has asked the BBC to host a head-to-head televised debate between him and his opponent Kemi Badenoch. He has written to BBC director-general Tim Davie asking for ...

Two RNLI lifeboats, the coastguard helicopter and the coastguard rescue teams from Southend and Canvey Island went to the scene. The coastguard said one of the people was able to make it to shore on ...

Police have launched an appeal to find a man who is missing from Chelmsford with four children. Essex Police said Jethro Cox, 38, is missing from his home and they believe he is with four children ...

A drone strike hit central Israel on Sunday, wounding more than 60 people, some of them critically, rescue services said, in ...

North Korea said its front-line army units are ready to launch strikes on South Korea, ramping up pressure on its rival that it said flew drones and dropped leaflets over its capital Pyongyang. South ...

Israeli rescue services said almost 40 people were wounded in a drone strike in the central city of Binyamina on Sunday, ...

Beth Lumsden bagged a brace to lead Newcastle United to a well-earned 2-1 victory over Sunderland in the Tyne-Wear Derby.

Strictly dancer Katya Jones has dismissed suggestions she was made to feel “uncomfortable or offended” as “complete nonsense” after a moment during Saturday night’s show saw her move Wynne Evans’ hand ...

The family of Alex Salmond have paid tribute to a “formidable politician” and “a devoted and loving husband”, following his death aged 69. Mr Salmond, who led the SNP before later founding the Alba ...

Someone’s DNA is simply an instruction manual for who they are and is not generally their “destiny”, an expert has said. Geneticist and ancient DNA specialist Professor Turi King explained that DNA is ...

A welfare team has checked in on Strictly pairing Katya Jones and Wynne Evans after she was seen on camera pushing the opera singer’s hand from her midriff and no further action is planned, the PA ...