Festive fun for all the family is on offer as an annual Christmas lights switch-on spectacular returns this weekend.

The tie-up, announced in May, will create a banking giant with millions of customers and about £89 billion worth of assets.

“While remaining high by historic standards, net migration is now beginning to fall and is provisionally down 20% in the 12 months to June 2024. Over that period we have seen a fall in immigration, ...

Just 42,500 applications have been approved since July, when the Government said almost 900,000 households were missing out on the benefit.

Elbow and Clean Bandit are among the five new acts announced for Latitude Festival 2025 in Henham Park, Suffolk.

Seven people have died in a landslide triggered by torrential rains in Indonesia’s Sumatra island, officials said, adding to ...

Ikea has launched a pop-up shop on London’s Oxford Street dedicated to its blue carrier bag, as it hopes to attract shoppers ahead of the delayed opening of its new city centre store.

The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders said UK factories made 15.3 fewer cars in October this year than October 2023.

The US conservative political commentor Candace Owens has been refused a visa to enter New Zealand for a speaking engagement because she had been banned from another country, immigration officials ...

A police officer who shocked a 95-yer-old nursing home resident with a Taser has been found guilty of manslaughter in an Australian court. A jury found Kristian James Samuel White guilty in the trial ...

Sir Ed Davey is launching a bid for Christmas number one with a charity single called Love Is Enough. The Liberal Democrat leader is teaming up with Bath Philharmonia’s Young Carers’ Choir for the ...

Five people have been taken to hospital after a fire broke out at a takeaway restaurant and flats in north London. Around 100 firefighters were called to tackle the blaze on Seven Sisters Road in ...