Plans for a statue of a writer who spent most of her adult life in west Dorset have been given the go-ahead. Sylvia Townsend Warner was a contemporary of Virginia …

Train passengers have been warned of disruption while a track renewal scheme takes place over Easter. Greater Anglia said rail replacement buses would be running across Essex on Sunday and …

York Mosque and Islamic Centre has praised Pope Francis for his commitment to "peace, justice and compassion". It was announced on Easter Monday that the first Latin American leader of …

A father who took his seven-year-old son to a riot at a hotel housing asylum seekers has been jailed. James Garbutt, 41, was seen with the boy on his shoulders …

A drone has caused reindeer, some of them heavily pregnant, to "panic and run" in the Cairngorms. The animals, members of the UK's only free-roaming reindeer herd, were spooked in …

I was planning an ordinary afternoon out – bags packed, ready to roll – when I bounded downstairs and was hit by a jolt of disbelief. The space where my …

Opposition councillors have criticised a decision by Derbyshire County Council's new Reform UK leaders to scrap the authority's climate change committee as "short-sighted" and "threatening". The committee, formally named the …

Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Micheál Martin has said he is "shocked and horrified" after Israeli troops fired warning shots in the vicinity of a diplomatic delegation on a visit to …

A food bank has said it had around £800 worth of goods stolen during a break-in over the Easter Weekend. Alistair Doxat-Purser, CEO of Faithworks Wessex, which runs the Wimborne …