Firefighters in a mountainous area north of Los Angeles have made good progress in their battle against a brush fire which has forced thousands of people to evacuate the area, an official said. The ...

The emergency alert test, which is being described as "one of the biggest public safety exercises” in UK history, is set to take place ...

Armando Broja has left boyhood club Chelsea after joining promoted Burnley for an undisclosed fee on a five-year contract. Broja moved to Chelsea from Tottenham aged eight in 2009 before progressing ...

The last of 72,000 homes which lost power during Storm Floris have been reconnected after five days. Power network Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) said the storm was “exceptional” ...

Scottish First Minister John Swinney has praised the work done by Sir Chris Hoy to raise awareness of prostate cancer following a meeting at Bute House. The champion cyclist, along with his wife Lady ...

POLICE have confirmed a body was found below the cliffs at a popular beach on Friday morning. Officers were called around 10.30am on Friday, August 8 to the scene at Aberporth Beach to a report that a ...

“On Friday at around lunchtime, there was a small rockfall in the Loom area (back of the Giant’s Causeway) in Port Noffer,” ...

Parviz Jafari, 45, is accused of stealing flowers from Broad Street in Birmingham following the death of Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne.

More than 100 motorcyclists have paid a “wonderful tribute” by riding in convoy to mark the funeral of the UK’s oldest Second World War veteran. Donald Rose, who was a D-Day veteran and fought as a ...

Other major events including the Community Shield match between Liverpool and Crystal Palace at Wembley are also taking place in London.

Firefighters who helped contain France’s largest wildfire in decades are on high alert because of forecasts of very high temperatures that could reignite the blaze in the south of the country.

Henrik Pedersen accepts it will be difficult for his Sheffield Wednesday players to focus on Sunday’s task at hand after a chaotic past few months. Wednesday are under a number of Football ...