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All four UK governments failed to appreciate the scale of the threat posed by COVID-19 or the urgency of the response the pandemic required, a damning report published on Thursday has claimed.

How best to summarise how badly the government fumbled the UK response to the COVID pandemic?

Britons buying cocaine on a Friday night could be inadvertently funding Russia's war in Ukraine.

Fresh yellow weather warnings for ice have been issued for many areas of the UK, as some areas are threatened with blizzard conditions on Thursday.

A fierce warning from Britain's defence secretary to Vladimir Putin to turn his spy ship away from UK waters or face the consequences was a very public attempt to deter the threat.

Sir Keir Starmer has insisted the G20 still matters and is a "really important" forum to bang the drum for British business, despite the decision of Donald Trump to boycott the international summit in South Africa.

Households and businesses will have to wait for energy bills to fall significantly because there is "no shortcut" to bringing down prices, the energy minister has told Sky News.

They've been billed as the "most sweeping asylum reforms in modern times" and the "biggest shake-up of the legal migration system" in nearly 50 years, but how are the UK's rules actually changing?

A paedophile who had a "commercial interest in the sexual abuse of young teenage boys" and sold child abuse images to other sex offenders has been jailed for raping two 12-year-olds.

The Stone Roses bassist Gary "Mani" Mounfield has died at the age of 63, his family has said.