A woman said missing her close friend’s wedding ceremony because of disruption at Heathrow was “nightmarish”. Farah Rafeeq, 24, was due to travel with Singapore Airlines on Friday from Heathrow with ...

A man who escaped from a prison van on a motorway has been found, police said. Jamie Cooper, 33, fled from the GEOAmey vehicle travelling to Lancaster Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday, Lancashire ...

Energy Secretary Ed Miliband has ordered the National Energy System Operator to “urgently investigate” the power outage caused by a substation fire that shut Heathrow Airport on Friday. He is working ...

At least three people have been killed and 14 injured in a mass shooting at a park in the desert city of Las Cruces, New Mexico, police said. Police are asking bystanders to share videos and other ...

The Pentagon’s intelligence and law enforcement arms are investigating what it says are leaks of national security information. Defence Department personnel could face polygraph tests in the the ...

Liverpool pop group The Searchers will end almost 70 years of touring with a final show at the Glastonbury Festival in June. The Merseybeats band, formed by Mike Pender and John McNally in 1957, have ...

JERSEY War Tunnels has been sold. The 1,000-metre underground tunnel complex, which was put on the market with an asking price in excess of £5.5 million in June last year, had been owned by Daisy Hill ...

Irish to give up hope”, a co-founder of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement has said as he urged protesters in Dublin to continue their support for Palestine. Thousands of people ...

The bomb squad has carried out a controlled burn of explosive chemicals discovered at a property in St Leonards as they continue operations to make safe a further 500 canisters. A 28-year-old man was ...

A PAIR of football fans are bringing back their five-a-side football tournament for the fourth year to raise funds for a disability charity – and the friends are calling on local businesses to sign up ...

Israel struck Lebanon in retaliation for rockets targeting Israel, killing two, including a child, in the heaviest exchange of fire since the ceasefire with the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.

Comic Relief’s charity fundraiser Red Nose Day has lost a million TV viewers compared to the previous year. An average audience of 2.6 million viewers watched the BBC programme, according to overnight ...