A trust has been awarded a £4m grant to carry out a "once-in-a-generation" restoration of 12th Century abbey buildings. The Abingdon Abbey Buildings in Oxfordshire are each Grade I listed …

Parishioners feel their "faith is being taken away" by a decision to stop holding regular masses at their church. According to congregants, The Holy Spirit Church in Sinfin, Derby, still …

A Kenyan court has sentenced four men to one year in prison or pay a fine of $7,700 (£5,800) for trying to smuggle thousands of live queen ants out of …

Jersey's first Muslim prayer leader is leaving the island because he has had problems bringing his wife and children over to live with him. Imam Abdul Samad has been in …

Warheads raining down from beyond the Earth's atmosphere. Faster-than-sound cruise missiles striking US infrastructure. Sky-high nuclear blasts. These are just some of the nightmarish scenarios that experts warn could come …

Recent weeks of hot weather have given one fruit farm its earliest season in more than 50 years. Bearstone Fruit Farm, near Woore on the Shropshire-Staffordshire border, has even been …

The fate of US President Donald Trump's centrepiece budget plan remains mired in uncertainty despite a last minute, in-person pitch to House Republicans on Tuesday. Trump departed the comfortable confines …

A ride-out of motorbikes, e-bikes and pushbikes is being planned to mark five years since a local man took his own life. Morgan McGlynn was 19 when he died in …

The EU's top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, has said that "Israeli strikes in Gaza go beyond what is necessary to fight Hamas" as the death toll there continues to mount. Kallas …