The company, which operates about 610 hotels, saw revenues slip by 3.2 to £471.3 million for the six months to June 30.

Seven breaches were serious enough to be reported to the UK’s data watchdog, the Information Commissioner’s Office.

A young shepherd set the baa high with her GCSE results when she arrived to collect them with her sheep, Kevin. Milly Johnson, 16, who has won awards for sheep-handling, brought along the North ...

Merseyside Police said the fire at Woolton Hall, Liverpool, on Tuesday ‘appears to have been an extremely reckless act’.

Conservative-led councils in Hertfordshire, Surrey and London are considering taking legal action against hoteliers, he said.

The number of pupils receiving top grades in GCSE examinations in Northern Ireland has risen. Results have been delivered to more than 32,000 pupils across the region. The provisional results show ...

Historically, experts classified giraffes as a single species with nine subspecies, but that has been overturned by the new classification.

Rapper Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs was cleared of sex trafficking following a trial in July but found guilty of lesser charges related to prostitution.

London and south-east England have seen larger year-on-year falls in the GCSE pass rate than all other regions, the 2025 exam figures show. Some 71.6% of entries in London were awarded grade 4 or ...

The former childminder, from Northampton, was ordered to serve 40 of her 31-month sentence in prison before being released on licence.

Vienna is to host the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest after Austria’s act JJ won the 2025 event with his song, Wasted Love, in Basel, Switzerland. The city will become joint fourth on the list of places ...

Teenagers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland have received their exam results to help them progress to sixth form, college or training.