Five people interviewed over the toppling of a statue of slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol will be offered conditional cautions, a chief constable has said. The bronze memorial to the 17th century slave merchant was pulled down during a Black Lives Matter protest on June 7, before being dumped …...Read More

The Duke of Cambridge is set to join a star-studded line-up to give a virtual TED talk about climate change. Prince William, 38, will appear alongside a panel of keen environmentalist and celebrities at TED's Countdown Global Launch on 10 October to discuss how the world can tackle global warming …...Read More

JK Rowling has once again been criticised for her new novel, after she was accused of 'transliterating' one of the book's working class characters by spelling their dialect differently. Troubled Blood, written under Rowling's pseudonym Robert Galbraith, was released Tuesday and sees detective Cormoran Strike work out what happened to …...Read More

This is the touching moment two elderly Chinese parents are reunited with their long-lost son 38 years after he was abducted. The 70-year-old man and his wife had spent the last nearly four decades praying for the return of their child, nicknamed Jin Shui, who was snatched from their home …...Read More

The governor of Nigeria's Kaduna state has signed a law saying men convicted of rape will face surgical castration. Anyone raping a child under age 14 will face the death penalty under the new legislation. It follows public anger over a recent increase of rapes amid Covid-19 restrictions, which prompted …...Read More

Armed police are on the hunt for man wielding a machete as a nearby school has been locked down to keep children safe. Students at Brighton Aldridge Community Academy were kept inside while Sussex Police officers, assisted by a helicopter, searched the area. The force received a report of a …...Read More

But despite its chilling past, the sprawling property has been bought at auction for £1.1m by a mystery buyer His company put Pencoed Castle near Newport, Wales up for sale for reduced price while he serves sentence Advertisement A castle dating back to the 16th century where a jealous millionaire …...Read More

Police have found a body in the search for a missing 14-year-old girl who failed to return home from school yesterday. Kekshan Rashid disappeared at around 2pm on Wednesday, sparking an urgent public appeal as the behaviour was 'completely out of character'. Detectives are not treating her death as suspicious …...Read More

Travellers returning from Thailand and Singapore will no longer have to quarantine after they were added to the UK safe travel list tonight. But Britons and holidaymakers arriving in Britain from Slovenia and the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe will face 14 days in isolation from 4am on Saturday. Announcing …...Read More

Jacob Rees-Mogg sparked anger today after telling people to stop their 'endless carping' about a lack of coronavirus tests. The Commons Leader dismissed the growing pressure on the Government over its testing shambles as he claimed the system had been a 'phenomenal success' which should be celebrated. Labour immediately slammed …...Read More