Families paying for childcare over the six-week summer holiday now face a bill of £1,076 per child on average – a rise of 4% on last year, a report has found. Councils have reported a shortage of ...

Between 20 and 40mm of rain could fall in one hour in the amber warning zone, going up to 70 to 100mm in just a few hours where heavy downpours persist. “Torrential rain, with thunderstorms in places, ...

Lord Robertson of Port Ellen said the UK is lacking in ammunition, training, people, logistics, and medical capacity.

This Morning presenter Josie Gibson is to transform her Somerset property into a dream home for a new series on ITV1. The TV star, from Bristol, will install an underground heat pump, grow her own ...

An amber warning for thunderstorms and flooding in Oxfordshire has been issued by the Met Office. The update provided today (Friday, July 18) has warned of severe weather this weekend. Torrential rain ...

Music mogul Simon Cowell is to search for the next big boyband in a new Netflix docuseries. The man behind the success of One Direction stars in Simon Cowell: The Next Act, which sees him hold open ...

Are we there yet? Parents ‘snap up items to keep children occupied on journeys’ as summer holidays stretch ahead ...

One child has died and 21 staff members and pupils from Minehead Middle School were injured after a school coach left the A396 in Somerset.

Customers at Lidl, Asda, TK Maxx, Matalan and Amazon have been warned to stop using some products sold at the stores because of potential health risks. The Office for Product Safety and Standards ...

The former England captain has been disqualified from getting behind the wheel for 12 months and ordered to pay a total of £7,085.

All 29 military and intelligence personnel on board RAF Chinook ZD576 were killed when the aircraft crashed in foggy weather on June 2, 1994.

Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander made the claim ahead of c2c becoming the second operator to be nationalised by the Labour Government on Sunday.