There are more levers which could be used to tackle child poverty than scrapping the two-child benefit cap, the Deputy Prime Minister has said as the Scottish Government seeks to mitigate it.

Sean Dyche has been sacked as Everton manager, the club have announced. The Toffees have won just one of their last 11 Premier League matches under Dyche. Everton confirmed that under-18s head coach ...

Colin Stonehouse, 36, and David Kirkbride, 28, joined a crowd of protesters who caused damage to a hotel housing asylum seekers in Staffordshire.

Members of the National Education Union will be asked if they would be willing to take industrial action over the Government’s proposed pay offer.

Aston Villa boss Unai Emery says winning the FA Cup is one of his side’s targets this season. Villa are seven-times winners of the famous cup competition but have not lifted the trophy since 1957.

Irish leaders have indicated they are content with the handling of recent weather as the end of the cold snap is in sight. Temperatures in parts of Ireland plunged to minus 7.5C in the early hours of ...

A judge at the New York Court of Appeals issued a brief order declining to grant a hearing to the US president-elect’s legal team.

Following a Freedom of Information Request, the number of stress-related staff absences at Pembrokeshire County Council has risen over the ...

A SEX offender has been accused of breaching a court order by installing and using a VPN. Anthony Coombes was made the subject of a sexual harm prevention order after he was convicted at Swansea Crown ...

A motorist has been caught driving with their head out of the window “Ace Ventura-style” because the car’s windscreen was blocked by snow. Merseyside Police said this is “simply not acceptable” and ...

A DOMESTIC abuser has been jailed for breaching a restraining order just 21 days after it was imposed. Zachariah Roberts, 23, of Marble Hall Road in Milford Haven, was jailed for battery on December ...