The Tories claim scrapping the £500 dividend allowance will drag an estimated 5.22 million more people into paying investment levies.

The strike started at Boeing facilities in St Louis; St Charles, Missouri; and Mascoutah, Illinois, after about 3,200 local ...

Good morning. Storm Floris has arrived in East Lancashire, with disruption expected throughout the day. We'll bring you live updates as we get them.

Adam Garnett, who was already a serving prisoner, had a number of mobile phones and Wi-Fi routers discovered in a cell search ...

Storm Floris hit Lancashire today (August 4) leading to some travel disruption and fallen trees. A yellow weather warning for wind came into force at 6am and remains in force until midnight tonight.

Blackburn Rovers have confirmed the signing of Hibernian right-back Lewis Miller, becoming their fifth signing of the summer transfer window. The 24-year-old has signed a three-year deal at Ewood Park ...

Dame Stella Rimington, the first female director general of MI5, has died aged 90, her family announced. Dubbed the “housewife superspy” when she came into the role, she is widely credited as the ...

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has led tributes following the death of former Labour Party general secretary Lord Tom Sawyer. He said the former trade unionist’s “place in our party’s history is ...

Police made an arrest after stopping vehicles in Nelson. On Friday (August 1), police stopped some vehicles on Colne Road, Brierfield and Manchester Road. Numerous cars were stopped and their vehicles ...

The mother of Baby P, who died after months of abuse, is due to face a public parole hearing later this year after a judge concluded “there can be no doubt that there is a substantial public interest” ...

The defections of the Cambridge spies – Kim Philby, Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean – still cast a long shadow over the intelligence community, fuelled in part by the conspiracy theories of MI5 officer ...

Dame Stella Rimington, who was the first female director general of MI5, has died at the age of 90, her family has announced. In a statement, her family said: “She died surrounded by her beloved ...