A cross-party group of MPs are backing plans which would ensure councils maintain playgrounds, and that new developments include play areas.

The search for a missing teenager who vanished four weeks ago is continuing with more than 400 people spoken to by police. Cole Cooper, 19, was last seen by his family on May 2 or 3 and was captured ...

The life sentence tariff handed to the “highly sexualised” murderer of dog walker Claire Knights is to be reviewed by the Court of Appeal.

KCC’s new leadership has requested a four-month extension to an “almost impossible” deadline for the reorganisation of local government.

Viktoria was born in Salzburg in September 2007 before moving to The Big Cat Sanctuary in Smarden, near Ashford, one year later. However, following a sudden decline in its health, keepers have ...

It comes as Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said the ECHR had become a “sword used to attack democratic decisions” and launched a review into whether she would commit to leaving the agreement.

Maro Itoje, 30, co-founded an artists’ residency that hosts creators at The King’s Foundation’s headquarters in Scotland.

Anas Sarwar is hoping the results of the Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse by-election could help Labour oust the SNP in the 2026 Holyrood election.

Kemi Badenoch has insisted that the Conservatives are still the main opposition to Labour despite her party slumping to fourth in a Holyrood by-election this week.

Green industries have praised proposals to require solar panels and heat pumps in new build homes but housebuilders warned that too much bureaucracy to install them could harm efforts to hit housing ...

Police are renewing their appeal to track down a man missing for more than three weeks amid fresh sightings of him.

A bull-breed owner has avoided jail after she failed to take her dying dog to the vets and allowed him to suffer weeks of unnecessary pain.