Plans for McDonald’s to open a third restaurant in a town have caused concerns it will lead to increased "traffic, loitering and crime". The fast food chain plans to open …

In Armenia tech education starts early. In a typical three-storey state school in the suburbs of Yerevan, the Armenian capital, nine-year old Slavik is demonstrating his invention – a box …

Health bosses at an NHS trust say they are unlikely to get "significant increases" in funding to tackle growing waiting lists. The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust's (CPFT) board …

"Watch the courts" was the whispered message a well-connected diplomat told me in Washington DC last month, amid the previous episode of US tariff chaos. Most eyes were on the …

A town centre will be transformed into a beach again later this month in a bid to help local businesses. Festival Square in Oswestry, Shropshire, will have a lorry load …

A man has been charged with murder after the death of a 34-year-old male found seriously injured at a house. The hurt man was discovered just before midnight on Thursday …

A man said a lack of care for his 96-year-old mother following a stroke after she left hospital, left her bedridden and without dignity in her final days. Vivien Lester …

A member of staff at a prison in Nottinghamshire needed hospital treatment after an attack by a prisoner, it has been confirmed. The prison officer was injured at HMP Lowdham …

Disabled people should be more fairly recognised in the honours system as part of the government's push to make awards reach a wider range of people, says Carly Jones, an …