Officials are said to be looking at proposals to hike a levy on property earnings in a bid to raise £2 billion.

The Refugee Council has proposed granting temporary permission to stay for certain asylum seekers to cut the need for hotels by next spring.

A common characteristic of the products it found were hoods which could cover a baby’s head and face while it sleeps.

An inspectorate praised the reduction in unrecorded offences since 2014 but said certain crimes must be better documented.

The Home Office and Somani Hotels are seeking to challenge an injunction stopping asylum seekers from being housed at the Bell Hotel in Epping.

The brains of people with autism are not dysfunctional, they just work differently, according to experts. The small study, which used scans to analyse brain signals, suggests “a different form of ...

It comes as working parents in England will be able to access 30 hours of funded childcare a week for children older than nine months from Monday.

A survivor of prolific abuser John Smyth has spoken of his anger over a data breach affecting the redress scheme set up by the Church of England following the scandal.

One of the “strangest dinosaurs” ever discovered had elaborate armour including spikes of up to a metre-long projecting out of its neck, fossils have revealed.

Some leaders seem unable to use an appropriate language to express what is taking place,’ Michael D Higgins said.

GIRVAN Library is expanding its free tool lending initiative. The scheme is part of the Scottish Library and Information Council's (SLIC) Lend and Mend project. This project aims to provide practical ...

Sir Ed Davey will boycott US President Donald Trump’s state banquet next month in a protest against his position on Gaza. The Liberal Democrat leader announced on Wednesday that he would decline an ...