Councils will have to agree targets to improve the number of children ready for school, under new plans to be announced by the Education Secretary. Bridget Phillipson will decry “a national scandal” ...

Ministers are facing Labour backbench calls to widen access to their proposed top tier of sickness benefits. Labour backbencher Graeme Downie has proposed a welfare reform Bill amendment, so universal ...

The Shipping Forecast provides an “oasis of calm”, Jarvis Cocker said as he marked the 100th anniversary of it being broadcast on the BBC. Produced by the Met Office on behalf of the Maritime and ...

Mourners are set to gather to honour Liverpool footballer Diogo Jota at a wake in Portugal on Friday morning, a local parish priest has said. The 28-year-old father of three, who had married his ...

By Terry Neale IT appears that there is a growing school of thought among some JEP columnists and letter writers that if we ...

RESTRICTIONS will be brought in to improve oversight of weapons in Jersey, the Home Affairs Minister has confirmed after it ...

A former Labour MP has said that she will set up a new party with Jeremy Corbyn. Zarah Sultana – who had the Labour whip suspended last year – said she was resigning from Sir Keir Starmer’s party and ...

Young people “are going to be committing terrorist acts, probably, by the weekend”, Lord Walney has warned during a debate on the proscription of protest group Palestine Action. The former independent ...

Champion jockey Oisin Murphy has apologised after a judge fined him £70,000 for crashing a car into a tree while drink-driving earlier this year. Murphy, 29, drove his grey Mercedes A-Class off the ...

Tributes have been paid to a police officer who collapsed and died while on duty. Pc Ian Minett, 38, died last month while on night duty with Gloucestershire Police. The officer had rejoined the force ...

Sir Keir Starmer’s Government has been likened to flat-earthers by one of its own MPs, over its refusal to compensate women affected by state pension age changes. Labour’s Rebecca Long Bailey said the ...