Nearly half a million shoplifting offences were recorded by police in England and Wales in a year, the highest 12-month total on record, figures show. A total of 492,914 offences were logged by forces ...

Emma Raducanu has taken a wild card into the WTA tournament in Abu Dhabi next week and will play in qualifying for the first time since winning the US Open.

The number of mortgage approvals to home buyers edged upwards month-on-month in December, according to Bank of England figures. Some 66,526 deals got the green light, up from 66,061 the previous month ...

A magnitude 5.6 earthquake shook buildings in Taiwan on Thursday morning as a series of shocks hit the island, causing little damage but possibly portending more seismic activity in the near future.

Shyam Rana, Anna Daniell and Melanie Johnson have been recognised with the Humanitarian Medal for their responses to major disasters.

Morgan Rogers says scoring a hat-trick to fire Aston Villa into the last 16 of the Champions League is a night he will “remember forever”. Rogers grabbed the matchball in a 4-2 win over Celtic which ...

Police say a burglary was reported into a house in the Hithe last night at 6.40pm. Anyone with information should call 101 and quote incident number 456 of January 29. The above information came from ...

Former Manchester United skipper Roy Keane has told England striker Marcus Rashford he should be “ashamed” at his exile. The 27-year-old has not played for the club since a 2-1 Europa League victory ...

It is nigh on impossible at the moment to talk about Wales without referencing a record run of 12 successive Test match defeats. Wales have not won a Test since beating Georgia at ...

Scrapping some deliveries would save Royal Mail between £250 million and £425 million a year, according to Ofcom.

A union has criticised plans to make almost 100 redundancies at mapping service Ordnance Survey. Prospect said laying off 95 skilled staff was “short sighted” and counter to the Government’s growth ...

Salwan Momika, 38, got worldwide publicity and caused anger in Muslim countries when he burned the religion’s holy book.