Reports about free tickets and clothing for senior Government figures provoked questions at the Labour Party conference in Liverpool.

A FORMER night superintendent at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital has been jailed for sexually assaulting children in Merseyside.

Gerald Smith, 69, was imprisoned for 18 months over the bounce-back loan also used to ‘fund a lavish lifestyle’, City of London Police said.

But Police Scotland boss Jo Farrell said she is ‘absolutely committed’ to delivering justice for the family of Alastair Wilson who died in 2004.

The Culture Secretary praised local newspapers for their work during the summer riots, adding ‘we lose them at our peril’.

The duke is carrying out two days of engagements, with the first event a summit with the Diana Award, which was set up in memory of his late mother.

The US is sending additional troops to the Middle East during a sharp spike in violence between Israel and Hezbollah forces in Lebanon that has raised the risk of a greater regional war, the Pentagon ...

Iran’s president has accused Israel of seeking a wider war in the Middle East and laying “traps” to lead his country into a wider conflict. Masoud Pezeshkian told about two dozen media representatives ...

DRIVERS in and around Wirral will have seven National Highways road closures to watch out for this week. And five of them are expected to cause delays of between 10 minutes and half an hour. The ...

The murder of a schoolboy in south-east London is a “stark and sobering reminder of the danger of zombie-style knives” ahead of an incoming ban on them, police say. The 15-year-old was found with a ...

Welsh Secretary Jo Stevens said she was putting an end to the ‘toxic legacy of distrust between both governments’.

The Taoiseach said he was ‘deeply concerned’ by the escalation of military actions on the Israeli-Lebanon border.