Circuses will be banned from using wild animals in their shows, the government is expected to announce on Friday. Ministers are to unveil plans in ...
The policeman who was shot and blinded by crazed gunman Raoul Moat has been found dead at his home in a suspected suicide. The body of Pc David Rat...
A Scotland Yard chief forced to resign over the phone-hacking scandal gives evidence today at the Leveson Inquiry into press standards. John Yates ...
Foreign Secretary William Hague called on Syrian soldiers to lay down their arms as the newly-appointed special envoy to the crisis demanded an end to...
PC David Rathband, the officer found dead in a suspected suicide on Thursday morning, 'struggled' to live with his injuries after he was blinded by gu...
England's exams system needs overhauling as top grades "no longer automatically mean top students", the former boss of a major awarding body said on T...
Children across England will today learn which secondary school they will attend from this September, although thousands are expected to miss out on t...
An Oxford university graduate has handed back his degree in protest against the university's decision to host a conference of Christians who support e...
The Church of England has offered an "unreserved apology" for historic cases of child abuse by some members of its clergy, including one priest who wa...
Ken Livingstone has promised to bring back the EMA to encourage disadvantaged students to stay on at school if he is reinstated as London's mayor in M...
Prince Harry arrives in Belize on Friday for the start of his Diamond Jubilee tour in honour of the Queen. Harry's seven-day visit to the Caribbean...
A former BBC and ITV presenter is facing jail after admitting a string of sexual assaults on teenage girls. Peter Rowell, 53, also confessed to mak...
A lack of awareness of breast cancer symptoms among older women could be to blame for the fact they are more likely to be diagnosed at a later stage, ...
Officials in Japan were "astonishingly unprepared" for the events that led to the Fukushima nuclear disaster, a damning report has concluded. Inves...
Numeracy skills are "blighting" millions of people's lives, as they struggle to understand their payslips or calculate money in shops, education campa...
A convicted rapist will be sentenced on Friday for spying on a teenage girl in a cinema toilet while on an escorted trip from a secure unit to watch a...
The Red Cross is to be allowed access to the Baba Amr region of Homs, after President Assad's regime indicated they would let foreign aid into the cou...
Home buyers pay a typical "premium" of nearly £50,000 to live in a spa town, research has found. House prices in spa towns in England and Wales ar...
There is not enough music in many school music lessons, inspectors have warned. In a damning report, Ofsted said pupils often spent too much time o...
Universities not paying the living wage to their employees will be named and shamed by unions in a bid to encourage all institutions to solve an "inhe...
The death of a schoolboy mauled to death by a polar bear while on an expedition in Norway could have been prevented, authorities have ruled. Horati...
The Department for Education's private emails are subject to Freedom of Information laws and Whitehall will have to disclose the information, it has b...
The death of Amy Winehouse has prompted a campaign to make drug education in schools compulsory. The pop star "might still be alive" if she had bee...
TV presenter Ray Mears is teaching a group of children "survival skills" after revealing he was "shocked" at research showing a large number of youngs...
Headteachers will be given greater freedom over how much homework to set after Michael Gove announced he would be scrapping government guidelines. ...
