Macron: Europe must end excessive dependencies on both the US and China Macron says European countries must end their “excessive dependencies on both the US and China”. He suggests China’s use of... Read more »

Scottish households are being urged to cut back heavily on their water use and instead treat it as a precious resource due to the growing threat to supplies from climate heating. Alex... Read more »

The news that Jane Birkin’s original Hermès bag has sold for a record-breaking €8.6m (£7.4m) at auction will no doubt cause some jaws to drop to the floor. However, perhaps it should... Read more »

During the first televised debate in the run-up to last summer’s general election, Keir Starmer used a phrase that received enthusiastic – and unanticipated – applause from the Salford audience. “I don’t... Read more »

A nursery has refunded a father almost £1,200 after an investigation found he had been charged mandatory “top-up” fees for hours of childcare that should have been free. Tiago Gomes’s daughter was... Read more »

US President Donald Trump has said he will impose a 35% tariff on Canadian goods starting on 1 August, even as the two countries were days away from a self-imposed deadline to... Read more »

Paul Seddon Political reporter Iain Watson Political correspondent Getty Images Angela Rayner is embroiled in an escalating row with Unite over her role in the long-running bin strikes in Birmingham. The union... Read more »

Rebekah Wilson and Jayne McCormack BBC News NI BBC Controversy has surrounded the bonfire at Meridi Street, off the Donegall Road A bonfire on a site that contains asbestos was set alight... Read more »

Siobhan Gorman Siobhan was 16-weeks pregnant and home alone when she gave birth to her baby Archie “There was probably something wrong with your baby”, “you could always try again”, “it wasn’t... Read more »