Girl, aged six, dies after being hit by car while walking with her father

A six-year-old girl has died after she and her father were hit by a car as they walked together in Stoke-on-Trent.

Bercow denies defection is down to PM – but says Johnson has ‘only a nodding acquaintance with the truth’

Former Conservative MP and Commons Speaker John Bercow has said his switching of allegiance to join the Labour Party is "not personal against Boris Johnson".

The market town where the government’s ‘levelling up’ agenda is ‘failing to help pupils’

Alison, a 16-year-old from Barnsley in South Yorkshire, is among the thousands of pupils across the UK who struggled to cope with the pressures of homeschooling during lockdown - with her education suffering as...

Thousands of ‘funny’ fathers submitted their best dad joke. This was the winner

The world's best dad joke can be revealed after thousands of "funny" fathers battled it out in a competition that was no laughing matter.

In Brazil, the fact 500,000 have died and the country isn’t in lockdown is too much for some to take

The thud of drums and chanting filled streets across Brazil. A day of protest on the day official figures recorded over 500,000 deaths from COVID-19. 

In Brazil, the fact 500,000 have died and the country isn’t in lockdown is too much for some to take

The thud of drums and chanting filled streets across Brazil. A day of protest on the day official figures recorded over 500,000 deaths from COVID-19. 

Pilots criticise ‘ludicrously cautious’ travel rules and claim UK aviation sector is now hardest hit in Europe

Pilots are calling for urgent action after claiming the government's "ludicrously cautious" travel restrictions caused the UK's aviation industry to be "the hardest hit in Europe".

721,469 booked a vaccine on the first day that jabs became available to all over 18s, figures reveal

More than 700,000 vaccine appointments were booked on the day that jabs became available to people aged 18 to 20 in England.