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

Today our Road Safety Camera vans will be operating on the A66 east from Penrith, the A685 between Tebay & Brougham, the M6 J42 – J37, ...

Sir Ed Davey is launching a bid for Christmas number one with a charity single called Love Is Enough. The Liberal Democrat leader is teaming up with Bath Philharmonia’s Young Carers’ Choir for the ...

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

People filling out their tax returns are being warned to watch out for scams as the self-assessment deadline approaches. Fraudsters are targeting people with bogus offers of tax refunds or demanding ...

Net migration to the UK hit a higher than previously thought record of 906,000 in the year to June 2023, revised official estimates show. The measure for the difference between the number of people ...

In Cumbria, 152 pets were abandoned last winter, up slightly from 150 in 2020-21. RSPCA chief inspector Ian Briggs said the rise in the number of calls made to the charity's emergency line this winter ...

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 ...

BBC Radio 2 presenter Zoe Ball has revealed she suffers from temporomandibular joint (TMJ) disorder, in a post on Instagram.