A coroner has raised concerns that police firearms training did not ensure “clear and consistent understanding” about when armed officers should announce their arrival before a man was fatally shot ...

An elusive species of butterfly, which is the second largest in the UK, has been sighted at a National Trust estate. The purple emperor, with a wingspan of around 8cm, was sighted at Sheringham Park ...

Pop star Miley Cyrus has said she has no “desire” to go on tour, adding that there is not enough “infrastructure” to support artists. The singer, 32, who rose to fame after starring in the Disney ...

Four young people who were arrested for their suspected involvement in the damaging cyber attacks against Marks & Spencer, the Co-op and Harrods, have been bailed. The arrests on July 10 included a 17 ...

Scotland’s First Minister has said it is in the interests of the country that he meets US President Donald Trump. John Swinney said he had an “obligation” to “protect and promote” Scotland. He said ...

The US government has sent five men who it describes as “barbaric” criminals to the small African nation of Eswatini in an expansion of the largely secretive third-country deportation programme. The ...

By Michael Talibard, DOES religion drive a rift between generations? Not quite, but the fact that the elderly are generally more religious than younger adults can feel uncomfortable for both and is ...

All 6.5 million members of the Co-op had their data stolen in the cyber attack against the UK retailer earlier this year, the retailer has revealed. The chief executive of the retail and funeral care ...

Tory ex-ministers have “serious questions to answer” about the Afghan data leak which resulted in an £850 million secret relocation scheme and an unprecedented legal gagging order, Sir Keir Starmer ...

Treble winner Teddy Sheringham does not believe Manchester United forward Marcus Rashford deserves to join Barcelona after what he feels has been a “soul-destroying” episode. The 27-year-old is on the ...

A teenage boy who launched a chair 50ft off the top floor of a shopping centre as part of an internet prank told police “it’s not that deep”, a court has heard. Two youths were arrested after a viral ...

A 15-year-old boy who stabbed a fellow pupil to death at school has told a jury that being bullied meant he got angry quickly and “I can’t control it”. The teenager took to the witness box at ...