Royal links to an alleged Chinese spy feature on the front pages of Friday’s newspapers. The Daily Telegraph and The Times both focus on reports that a “close confidant” of the Duke of York has been ...

Samir Ousman al-Sheikh, who oversaw Syria’s infamous Adra Prison from 2005 to 2008 under recently ousted President Bashar ...

Europe “will spend more” on defence, the head of Nato has suggested, after he warned that “it is time to shift to a wartime mindset”. Mark Rutte, the organisation’s secretary general, told the BBC ...

A woman whose body was found in the boot of a car in east London allegedly told her mother that her husband “was going to kill her”. Harshita Brella, 24, was found in the boot of a silver Vauxhall ...

Consumer confidence remained suppressed in December amid the “continuing uncharitable view on the UK’s general economic situation”, a survey suggests. GfK’s long-running Consumer Confidence Index ...

More than one in four Britons would ask Christmas Day guests to contribute to the cost of the festive meal, a survey suggests. Some 27% agreed they would feel comfortable asking their guests to make a ...

The National Audit Office (NAO) urged ministers to put ‘greater focus’ on ensuring more chargepoints are installed in rural locations.

The Government has unveiled a clean power action plan to decarbonise the electricity grid by the end of the decade to protect households from future energy price spikes, boost growth and tackle the ...

Research from green groups found that more than half of local authorities in England have failed to meet their ‘biodiversity duty’ requirements.

Age UK said families find the system for NHS continuing healthcare ‘a complete con’, with decision-making being made on an ‘ad hoc’ basis.