The partnership will see the veteran singer-songwriter provide two music students with fully funded scholarships.

The FCA launched proposals last year which would allow it to announce when it has opened enforcement investigations into financial firms.

Senior economists at the Bank of England will announce later on Thursday whether they are cutting the UK’s base interest rate, which currently sits at 4.75%. Most experts predict a quarter point ...

Playwright Sir David Hare has criticised the National Theatre, saying it “is meant to present the world’s drama, and it doesn’t at the moment”, while suggesting that British cultural life is in ...

About half (52%) of parents said current thresholds to get help and long waiting times are barriers preventing their children from getting the support they need. According to NHS data, one in five ...

The British musician died from ‘polytrauma’, meaning multiple traumatic injuries, after a fall from a hotel balcony.

Broadcaster Kay Burley has reflected on her career at Sky News and said she benefitted from “women supporting other women”. Burley announced she was retiring from the channel, after 36 years, at the ...

The protests were a result of a movement that was organised online under the hashtags #buildtheresistance and #50501.

Bereaved families of the Grenfell fire are understood to have been told the tower block will be demolished. Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner, who is also Housing Secretary, met with relatives and ...

The House of Lords voted in favour of increasing the maximum sentence for this crime from an unlimited fine to imprisonment.

Communities minister Jim McMahon said that despite a 6.8 increase to overall local authority funding, some English councils will be poorer.

Sandie Peggie was suspended after she complained about Dr Beth Upton sharing a female changing area in Victoria Hospital, Fife.