Health Secretary Matt Hancock owns shares in a company which was approved as a potential supplier for NHS trusts in England, it has emerged.

Stage and screen actor Helen McCrory, who is known for her roles in Harry Potter and the BBC series Peaky Blinders has died from cancer aged 52, her husband, the actor Damian Le...

Office for Students will publish new guidance requiring robust reporting procedures

The UK’s chief negotiator with the EU has reported that the two sides have identified a number of outstanding issues relating to Northern Ireland and the post-Brexit arrangement...

Tax evasion using cryptocurrencies is “replicating” with nonfungible tokens and other new crypto-related products, according to IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig.

Boris Johnson's visit to India will still go ahead later this month despite the country's soaring coronavirus cases and a new variant there, No 10 says.

The prime minister's claim that it was lockdown, and not the vaccine or seasonal factors, which led to the rapid fall in Covid cases and deaths in the UK should set alarm bells ...

The prosecution of BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes could lay down legal markers as digital currency moves into the mainstream.

A fitness-obsessed father who forced his daughter to sign a contract to "never get fat" has been jailed for 30 months.

Labour says revelations about health secretary show government is ‘infected with widespread cronyism’

The Duchess of Sussex, 39, has stayed in America on doctor's advice while Prince Harry flew back into the UK for Prince Philip's funeral in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, o...

Office set up by David Cameron after series of scandals is limited by narrow powers and meagre resources

The chairman of a parish council whose meeting went viral has apologised for losing his cool but said he stood by the claims he made in it.

Apparently, Idris Elba’s character in the crime drama ‘Luther’ is not “black enough to be real” by the BBC diversity chief’s standards. I’ve heard similar things about myself, a...

An accountant who committed “industrial scale dishonesty” to fund a lavish lifestyle has been jailed.

A former head of the Civil Service has said he is "baffled" that approval was given for a top civil servant to take a job at Greensill Capital while still on the government payr...

Dozens of women got in touch with the Guardian to say they feel ‘fobbed off’ with painkillers

Once renowned for its irreverence and flippancy, the UK has become a nation of overly sensitive establishment-loving gimps triggered by anyone taking the pee out of flags or pri...

When an American man claimed in 2018 he was the true owner of around £160,000 worth of gold bars stored in a Swiss vault, alarm bells rang.

Experts worried about high use of drugs such as codeine and tramadol after prescriptions rose during Covid pandemic

Pregnant women should be offered a Covid jab when other people their age get one, the UK's vaccine advisers say.

Tickets for arena shows by Alicia Keys, Haim and Mrs Brown's Boys in June are still on sale despite the fact they can't go ahead as planned under the government reopening roadmap.

More families and friends have been able to reunite in parks, gardens and beaches across Scotland after months in lockdown.

The measures, being considered by government ministers, aims to tackle a rise in pet theft during the pandemic.

The Soviet Union did not have many of the same technological advances enjoyed by Nasa – but that didn’t stop them leaping ahead of the Americans into space. Here’s how.