People will need to have six months of service to claim unfair dismissal against their employer under the proposed change.

Full Fact has fact checked a number of claims made by the Chancellor in her speech, and by the Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch in her Budget response. We’ve looked below at four such claims – for ...

Police are investigating an incident in which officers in Londonderry were attacked with a five inch hunting knife as attempted murder. One officer was stabbed in the leg with the weapon and required ...

The suspect worked with the CIA and the US government in Afghanistan before arriving in America, the agency’s director said.

Net migration to the UK has fallen to its lowest level in four years and is now more than three-quarters below its peak in 2023. Here the Press Association looks at the key numbers and trends in the ...

The future Queen’s Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood has launched the programme with Anna Freud, a leading mental health charity.

Normal People author Sally Rooney’s books may have to be withdrawn from sale and none of her new works published in the UK due to “uncertainty” caused by the ban on Palestine Action, the High Court ...

The fall in net migration to the lowest annual figure since 2021 has been described as a “step in the right direction” by the Prime Minister. Latest estimates published on Thursday suggest the number ...

Pope Leo XIV has arrived in Turkey on his first foreign trip. The journey fulfils the late Pope Francis’s plans to mark an ...

Chris Packham has urged MPs to “listen to the science” on climate change as he warned of a “dangerous wave of misinformation”. The TV presenter and naturalist attended an “emergency climate change ...

Latest figures show the number dropped to 204,000 in the year to June 2025, down 69 year-on-year from 649,000.