The hit, which took 39 years to become a Christmas number one, topped the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra’s poll.

Drivers are being urged not to travel on major routes for six hours on both Friday and Saturday to avoid the worst Christmas holiday traffic. The RAC and transport analytics company Inrix said roads ...

A Met Office yellow warning, covering parts of the Highlands, Argyll and Bute, Perthshire and the Stirling area, is in force and runs until midday on Tuesday. Travel disruption and flooding could hit ...

The Deputy Prime Minister will vow to push power out of Whitehall and into the hands of people with ‘skin in the game’.

The former Scottish first minister said she is ‘getting on with life as best I can’ as a police probe into SNP finances continues.

The digital bank’s yearly spending data sheds a light on the shopping habits of its more than 11 million customers in Britain.

Alternative proteins for the turkey, resilient super-spuds and ‘cheese from peas’ may help to keep the meal on tables for generations, ...

French police are investigating the deaths of five people who were fatally shot in the Dunkirk area of northern France on Saturday. A 22-year-old man later turned himself in to police, according to ...

The extent of unexploded ordnance littering Syria will be “massive” and poses a particular threat to children returning to the country, a landmine-clearing leader has warned. Since the fall of the ...

Reform UK is prepared to name an alleged Chinese spy linked to the Duke of York, despite a court anonymity order, Nigel Farage said, as it was reported that the suspect met two former prime ministers.

Britain will become a member of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) on Sunday.

Officers from West Yorkshire’s Roads Policing Unit were carrying out a drink-drive patrol on Saturday when they came across a ...