The UK’s asylum system now costs £5 billion – the highest level of spending on record and up by more than a third in a year. Home Office spending on asylum rose by £1.43 billion, up 36% from £3.95 ...

"Regeneration" is still planned for a site in Dagenham previously earmarked for Billingsgate and Smithfields Markets.

The tie-up, announced in May, will create a banking giant with millions of customers and about £89 billion worth of assets.

A man in his 20s has ben taken to hospital after a shooting in Leyton. Officers were called to reports of gunshots heard in St George's Road at around 6.10pm yesterday (November 27). London Ambulance ...

The City of London Corporation has agreed to stop running the historic Billingsgate Market in Poplar and pay compensation to traders.

Coventry have announced Frank Lampard as their new head coach on a two-and-a-half-year contract. The 46-year-old will take charge of the Sky Blues for the first time this Saturday when his new side ...

Just 42,500 applications have been approved since July, when the Government said almost 900,000 households were missing out on the benefit.

Jesse Lloyd-Smith, 20, was shot in East Surrey Grove shortly before 5pm on July 10 and died the following day in hospital. His relatives urged those who have been “sitting on the truth” to finally ...

Seven people have died in a landslide triggered by torrential rains in Indonesia’s Sumatra island, officials said, adding to ...

“While remaining high by historic standards, net migration is now beginning to fall and is provisionally down 20% in the 12 months to June 2024. Over that period we have seen a fall in immigration, ...

Decisions about assisted dying should be made on a “secular basis”, a Government minister said ahead of MPs voting on the issue on Friday. Home Office minister Seema Malhotra acknowledged that “people ...

A police officer who shocked a 95-yer-old nursing home resident with a Taser has been found guilty of manslaughter in an Australian court. A jury found Kristian James Samuel White guilty in the trial ...