The by-election was triggered after Mr Burnham was elected as Labour MP for Makerfield, meaning he had to stand down.

Idi Amin’s grandson was disqualified for a headbutt in the third round of his opening super-heavyweight bout against England’s Damar Thomas at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. Twenty-five year old ...

Tributes have poured in from across the world for the Irish musician and activist, who died in a motorcycle crash on Wednesday morning.

PIRATES smashed Berwick to enact revenge on the Bandits after their KO Cup semifinal exit, as Poole flew to a 60-30 victory at Wimborne Road ...

Spider-Man star Tom Holland has said “no-one calms me down better” than his partner, Hollywood star Zendaya. The couple met on the set of Spider-Man: Homecoming in 2017, with Holland playing the ...

The 53-year-old is set to replace fellow New Zealander Brendon McCullum and take over England’s red-ball set-up.

Reform UK’s deputy leader in Scotland has reported one of the country’s most high-profile lawyers to police over hate speech claims. Thomas Kerr has asked officers to investigate a speech made by ...

Shipping through the Strait of Hormuz has hit “crisis-era lows”, a UK-based maritime data firm has reported as a brief pause ...

Officers reviewed the reports and decided no further action will be taken in relation to the sharing of the image online, the Met Police said.

Neil Reading, one of Britain’s leading entertainment publicists who represented stars including John Cleese, Dawn French and the late Victoria Wood, has died aged 56 after a short illness. The founder ...

Daniel King enjoyed a huge moment in the saddle as he steered King Alexander to victory in the Tote Galway Plate for Willie Mullins. At one time in the care of Nicky Henderson, the eight-year-old was ...

Saltburn are treating allegations of cheating very seriously and have suspended the player at the centre of the controversy for the “foreseeable future”.