Former footballer and manager Joey Barton “crossed the line between free speech and a crime” with social media posts about broadcaster Jeremy Vine and female television pundits Eni Aluko and Lucy Ward ...

Persistent grey skies and low cloud meant last month was the one of the UK’s dullest Octobers on record, new figures show. The country saw an average of just 63.3 hours of sunshine, the lowest total ...

Muslim convert Jordan Richardson, 21, started planning an ‘atrocity’, with possible targets including a shopping centre.

Champion jockey Oisin Murphy has received a 15-day ban for repeated breaches of the whip rules.

A man who has absconded from a Gloucestershire prison has links to Wiltshire and police are urgently appealing for information to locate him. Adam Crawford, aged 39, absconded from HMP Leyhill in ...

Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander suggested she would be ‘comfortable’ with ‘high-end’ vehicles not being available through the ...

Former hurling star DJ Carey has been sentenced to five and a half years in prison after a “reprehensible” act of fraud where he exploited the goodwill of friends, family and fans of thousands of euro ...

Ian Holloway felt that Swindon Town looked like accomplished boxers with how they kept going in their 2-1 win over Rotherham United ...

A rare fish which dates back to the Ice Age is continuing to thrive in a loch where it was introduced after becoming extinct in Scotland, a survey has found. Vendace, said to be the UK’s rarest native ...

No migrants have been recorded crossing the English Channel for 11 days, the longest gap so far this year. The most recent date on which people arrived in the UK after making the journey by boat was ...

There has been disruption on roads in Swindon during a closure for resurfacing works. Bridport Road in Park South has been closed by Swindon Borough Council to allow resurfacing works to take place on ...

Israel has handed over the bodies of 45 Palestinians, health officials in Gaza said, a day after Hamas returned the remains of three hostages. Israeli officials identified the three as soldiers who ...