The Government is working on contingency plans for housing asylum seekers after a court ruled that they should be removed from a hotel in Epping, Essex. Ministers are now bracing for further legal ...

A Somerset family is looking for their missing nine-year-old dog, Luna. She escaped from their home in the Wellington area on Sunday, August 10. The family said Luna, who was rescued from a Romanian ...

Taunton Town kept their undefeated start to the season going with a draw at home to Basingstoke Town on Saturday (August 16) but will feel they should have completed the victory. The Peacocks went ...

There were three patient deaths, two of them as a result of complications linked to the outbreak at Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge.

The official said 50,000 reservists will be called up in the coming month, nearly doubling the number of active reservists to 120,000. Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said earlier this month that ...

Workers at aircraft manufacturer Airbus are to stage a series of strikes in a dispute over pay. Unite said around 3,000 of its members will walk out for 10 days in September after they voted ...

If that formula is used to set next year’s fare increase, the cost of train travel will jump by 5.8%. Pressure group Railfuture recently told the PA news agency “it would be outrageous” if fares even ...

Up to 600 car parking spaces could disappear from Yeovil town centre under plans to provide new homes on four key sites.

Australian home affairs minister Tony Burke further inflamed Israel’s anger by cancelling the visa of far-right politician Simcha Rothman.

John Swinney has said Shetland will play a “significant role” in efforts to drive economic growth ahead of his visit to the islands. Scotland’s First Minister said the islands are well placed to ...

Thousands of tonnes of green waste collected in Somerset each year is being recycled into soil conditioner for commercial and domestic use.