Many people will have wished Andy Burnham well when he became Prime Minister a week ago. It's in all our interests that he doesn't make a complete hash of things.

Emergency services were called to Fistral Beach in Newquay, Cornwall, at 9.45pm yesterday after two people got into difficulty at sea.

Motor neurone disease - known as MND - affects 5,000 adults in the UK at any one time, with about 1,100 diagnosed each year. The numbers seem to be rising steadily - and, crucially, it has no cure.

The allure of Trinidad and Tobago was in Elaine McGowan's blood. The landlady of the Castle Hotel in Saltwood, Kent, dreamed of moving to the twin-island Caribbean nation.

Like many others, I was struck by the strange 'coincidence' that Covid erupted in the city with a secretive lab containing the world's biggest repository of bat coronaviruses.

After all the weeks he had to prepare for his takeover, Andy Burnham seems remarkably unready to govern.

The UK could bake in its fourth heatwave this week with temperatures peaking at 35C (95F), forecasters have warned.

Last September Rachel Reeves, then still the all-powerful Chancellor, sealed her fate with Andy Burnham. He issued a radical call for Britain to stop being 'in hock to the bond markets'.

Organised crime gangs are invading farms and intimidating the owners to stage illegal hare coursing events, a shocking investigation has revealed.

As Vickrum Digwa starts his life in prison for killing Henry Nowak, his cocky swagger has vanished and he had to beg not to be sent to the wing where Ian Huntley met his savage end.

Langton had to leave the Glasgow International Arena on a stretcher after falling from the high bar and landing on his head and neck area.

Labour wants more people to invest in UK stocks and shares, but some people with seven-figure sums are sticking with cash.

No Hollywood scriptwriter would have dared pen such an outrageously unlikely plot.

A few months after the McCann family returned from Portugal without their beloved Madeleine, Kate McCann took her toddler twins Sean and Amelie to the local pool for swimming lessons.

On Friday night, his family urged Ed Miliband to intervene in the hope that the father will be able to attend his son's funeral in Britain.

The President used his remarks both to praise, and at times, to excoriate, some of the biggest names in Washington's press corps and beyond.

The President was without wife and First Lady Melania Trump, instead seated in between WHCA President Weija Jiang and Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Friday.

The Golden Age murder mystery novellist was born on the 'English Riviera' in Torbay, southwest England, on September 15, 1890.

A huge explosion has rocked homes across Essex after a huge blaze erupted at an industrial unit containing fertiliser in Southend Road, between East Hanningfield and Rettendon, Essex.

Brian Green, 76, who fled after being granted bail before facing trial, was sentenced in his absence to 22 years at Leeds Crown Court in 2024 for five counts of rape.

Water firm bosses have received in total multi-million-pound pay hikes over the last year amid public outrage over pollution and bills, as well as government bonus bans.

The President was without wife and First Lady Melania Trump, instead seated in between WHCA President Weija Jiang and Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Friday.

Tony Bartlett, of Axminster, Devon, was found guilty on Friday of killing his four-week-old son Atticus Bartlett in July 2022.

Vice President JD Vance has come under a barrage of criticism as Donald Trump 's heir apparent would need to begin readying for a 2028 launch.

A widespread outage impacted dozens of websites on Friday morning, including Apple Pay, Reddit and Hulu.

British tourists who fled from the French cape inferno have described escaping from 'enormous' flames after being woken in the night with emergency texts.

Raul Morales, 51, was apprehended for the attack on Thursday afternoon shortly after police said he stabbed a 57-year-old man in the torso at around 1.30pm then struck a 50-year-old man.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are believed to have bought a £6.3million villa at the prestigious CostaTerra Golf and Ocean Club, a 300-home development on the idyllic Melides coast.

Chris Brown, 37, arrived at court wearing a brown suit and a baseball cap. He is accused of attacking a music producer in a London nightclub. He admitted affray.

Christopher Hellenthal, 20, was still dressed as Spider-Man hero after work on Tuesday when he spotted a pedestrian in a wheelchair struggling to cross a six-lane highway.

The Real Madrid star made a point of confronting Ismail Elfath - Lionel Messi's favourite referee - to share his grievances after England's 2-1 loss last week.

Benidorm is famous for its bright lights, all-inclusive hotels, and bargain pints. But is it actually safe for children? One resident shares his take...

Andy Burnham gushed about the project after flying in on a Government jet from Scotland, where he attended the Commonwealth Games opening last night.

Britain's artificial intelligence security experts revealed that all five models they had tested tried to trick their way round the security controls they had put in place.

Prince Abdullah bin Fahad bin Abdullah bin Abdulaziz bin Jalawi al Saud (pictured) was discovered by a cleaner on the bathroom floor of his hotel room on November 25 last year.