The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster said the Government was not adopting an ‘ideological approach to stripping back the state’.

Francis is said to be responding well to treatment and has shown a ‘gradual, slight improvement’, his doctors say.

A British explorer is aiming to become the first woman to solo traverse across Canada’s Baffin Island, battling temperatures as low as -40C. Camilla Hempleman-Adams, 32, will cover 150 miles during ...

The Government is not considering reintroducing conscription, a senior minister has said, as the Latvian president said European countries should consider bringing it in.

Countries cannot be “dragooned” into the so-called coalition of the willing by the UK, a senior minister has suggested. Pat McFadden has said that nations have to “step forward themselves” if they ...

Kirill Kachur, 33, was being hunted by the team who had been tasked with kidnapping him and sending him back to Moscow, either dead or alive.

Russian special forces walked miles inside of a gas pipeline to strike Ukrainian units from the rear in the Kursk region, Ukraine’s military and Russian war bloggers reported, as Moscow moves to ...

Camilla bought Ray Mill House in the village of Lacock, Wiltshire, in 1995 and still uses the mansion to spend quality time with her family.

A barrister representing a nurse who objected to sharing a changing room with a transgender doctor has described her legal argument as “you’ve got a willy, so you’re a man, innit?” Naomi Cunningham ...

The man, who scaled Elizabeth Tower barefoot at around 7.20am on Saturday, finally came down just after midnight on Sunday.

TWO Borders rugby enthusiasts are set to launch their “holistic” training camp project in Peebles. Former Scotland international Nick De Luca and ex-Hawick skipper and celebrated coach Roddy Deans ...

Former James Bond actor Pierce Brosnan has said it is a “given” that Daniel Craig’s successor should be British. It comes following concerns that the franchise will not be British anymore in the wake ...