The UK competition watchdog has launched an investigation into the proposed takeover of NHS landlord Assura. Last month, rival healthcare property firm PHP (Primary Health Properties) put forward a ...

THREE houses – each with a price tag of more than one million – all sold in Widnes on the same day. The properties have formed their own buyers’ chain and all three sales were handled by the same ...

Bridget Phillipson will decry ‘a national scandal’ when she speaks at a Government regional improvement conference on Friday.

Sir Keir Starmer said he has a good relationship with US President Donald Trump because they both “care about family”. The Prime Minister told the BBC Radio 4 podcast Political Thinking With Nick ...

Pop star Katy Perry and British actor Orlando Bloom have split, several media outlets reported. The pair “have been shifting their relationship over the past many months to focus on co-parenting” and ...

Mourners are to gather to honour Liverpool footballer Diogo Jota at a wake in Portugal on Friday morning, a local parish priest has said. The 28-year-old father of three, who had married his long-term ...

More than 500 towns across England and Wales have signed up to the Home Office’s safer streets summer initiative, which will run to September 30 ...

Michael Madsen, whose menacing characters in Reservoir Dogs and Kill Bill made him a standout performer in Quentin ...

Thousands of tourists, hotel workers and residents have been evacuated from the Ierapetra area on Crete’s southern coast.

Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall believes Chelsea will be stronger as a squad having embraced the challenge at the Club World Cup. The ...

A former Labour MP has said that she will set up a new party with Jeremy Corbyn. Zarah Sultana – who had the Labour whip suspended last year – said she was resigning from Sir Keir Starmer’s party and ...

Cllr Karen Shore, deputy leader of Cheshire West and Chester Council and a member of the Cheshire and Warrington Joint Committee responsible for skills and careers, said: "An event like this which ...