Household water bills in England and Wales will increase by an average £31 a year over the next five years, regulator Ofwat has announced. The increase is significantly higher than the expected ...

The ruling falls well short of a 59 bills hike requested by the troubled water company, as it tries to secure a bailout from investors.

At least nine people have been killed in Israeli attacks on Yemen, a Houthi-controlled satellite channel reported on Thursday. Al-Masirah, citing its correspondent in the port city of Hodeida, said at ...

Former BBC News journalist Rory Cellan-Jones said the Parkinson’s community “felt absolutely left out in the cold”, after being honoured at Buckingham Palace. The broadcaster’s former technology ...

Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov was killed on Tuesday by a bomb hidden in a scooter outside his apartment building in Moscow ...

Sir David Jason has revealed how moved he was after watching the Only Fools And Horses The Musical for the first time. After a four-year run on the West End, the stage production based on the hit BBC ...

UK interest rates are expected to remain at 4.75%, with rising inflation and wage growth persuading the Bank of England’s policymakers to keep rate cuts on pause, experts think. The Bank will announce ...

TSBC, the UK’s largest grower of greenhouse strawberries, will grow its first winter strawberries after a £6 million installation of the new technology. It aims to produce 600, ...

A federal judge on Wednesday ordered Rudy Giuliani to appear in court in early January to face claims that he should be held in contempt for failing to turn over assets including a New York apartment ...

The Prime Minister will take questions from the Liaison Committee for the first time since being elected in July.

The rules around donations to political parties need strengthening to “protect the electoral system from foreign interference”, the head of the elections watchdog has said. Vijay Rangarajan, chief ...

The oldest known stone tablet inscribed with the Ten Commandments sold for more than 5.0 million US dollars (£3.93 million) at an auction on Wednesday. Sotheby’s said the 52kg marble slab was acquired ...