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Families face spending more than £1,100 per child for summer holiday childcare, new research suggests.

The average advertised private rent on a home in Britain has reached a record £1,397 per month, according to Rightmove.

A 14-year-old boy has been charged with terrorism over an alleged plot to target two London mosques.

The parents of a seven-year-old girl who was severely injured in the 2023 Parnell Square attack in Dublin have spoken of their joy after welcoming a baby into their family.

A "shameless" fraudster who stole £300,000 from a vulnerable pensioner has been arrested after Sky News tracked her down to Tenerife.

England World Cup winner Nobby Stiles died with a brain condition caused by repeatedly heading a football, a coroner ruled.

Eight men have been charged with rape and child sexual abuse offences as part of an alleged grooming gang operating in South Wales, the Crown Prosecution Service has said.

As many as 13,000 toilets and thousands of changing-rooms across the UK will need to be changed when new guidance on single-sex spaces comes into force next month.

Two asylum seekers have been given lengthy prison sentences for repeatedly raping a woman on Brighton beach, while a third who filmed the attack has also been jailed.

Two Scottish women taking part in this year's Clipper Round The World Yacht Race have spoken of their joy at arriving in the UK after crossing the Atlantic Ocean.

Two more British nationals are confirmed dead after wildfires in southern Spain.

A man is to stand trial next year accused of murdering a woman weeks after he allegedly attempted to kill her.

A Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton has become the most expensive dinosaur fossil sold at auction after an unidentified buyer paid more than $50m (£37.3m) for it.

An MP accused of sexually assaulting two women at a nightclub in London denied "fist pumping in celebration" after one of the alleged gropes.

The current run of very high UK temperatures is set to end in the coming days - but may return in the weeks ahead, forecasters have said.

The number of confirmed cases of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has reached 2,011, with 754 deaths, according to government data.

Spain and Gibraltar are celebrating the removal of a border checkpoint following a historic treaty between the EU and the UK.

The UK government is working on a ban on imports and exports to illegal Israeli settlements, the trade minister confirmed on Wednesday morning.

A British illegal immigrant who was allegedly part of an international criminal organisation has been shot and killed in the United States.