A council leader said there was still "much more to do" to try reducing the local authority's "disastrous" £900m debt, as he resigned from office. John Kent has stepped down …

Permission has been given for a 66-bed residential home for the elderly to be built in Bourne. LNT Care Developments has been granted planning permission by South Kesteven District Council …

Drivers have been warned of more than a week of overnight closures to a main road in Shropshire. From 11 to 16 June, the A5 near Shrewsbury will be closed …

Listen to Jean read this article The border between North and South Korea is swamped with layers of dense barbed-wire fencing and hundreds of guard posts. But dotted among them …

A woman who fatally hit a cyclist while driving said there was nothing she could do to stop it and she thinks about it "every single day", an inquest has …

A community is still living with a sinkhole in a residential road outside their homes – four months after it opened up due to a burst water pipe – because …

A teenage girl has been grabbed by a man in a Surrey street, just weeks after two reports of a person approaching girls and asking them inappropriate questions, police say. …

Adverts from six companies selling liquid Brazilian butt lifts (BBLs) have been banned in the UK for trivialising the risks and exploiting women's insecurities around body image. All of them …

Wales' first minister has urged businesses and politicians to "keep our cool" as turmoil continues to hit world markets following US President Trump's tariff hike. Eluned Morgan told BBC Wales …