UK business confidence has recovered to levels last seen before Labour’s budget in October as investment intentions pick up but lingering fears of a global downturn continue to weigh on sentiment, according to the Institute of Directors.

The plan will form part of Sir Keir Starmer's long-awaited Strategic Defence Review, which will be published on Monday.

A UK-wide ban on the sale of single-use e-cigarettes coming into force on Sunday will be inadequate to prevent young people vaping or significantly reduce the dangerous e-waste created by the devices, experts warn.

The UK's oldest road is more than 5,000 years old and once stretched hundreds of miles - now it is around one third of its original length.

The UK's oldest surviving World War Two veteran has been awarded the Freedom of Erewash. Donald Rose, who is also the UK's oldest man aged 110, was honoured by Erewash's youngest ever mayor, 25-year-old Harry Atkinson,

The captain of a container ship that crashed into a US tanker off Britain’s east coast pleaded not guilty on Friday in a London court to manslaughter by gross negligence over the death of a crew member in the collision.

UK officials are probing the legal and practical implications of forcing households to fill out key economic surveys after a collapse in responses left the Bank of England in the dark over jobs data crucial to its interest-rate decisions.

This latest twist in the Trump trade tariff drama has many people asking what it means for the UK's deal with the US. The answer is actually not as much as you might think. For a start, the tariffs that the US court has ruled illegal do not include those on cars,

British finance minister Rachel Reeves' key decision in next week's multi-year spending review will be how much to spend on healthcare versus other public services, the Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank said on Sunday.