A Lancashire shepherdess picked up her GCSE results with Kevin, her rare breed North Ronaldsay sheep. Milly Johnson, 16, achieved eight GCSEs between grades 4 and 7, and was accompanied by Kevin the ...

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Business activity across the UK’s private sector has hit a one-year high this month, as the services industry led a summer rebound, according to new survey data. Firms nevertheless have been cutting ...

Chelsea have accepted a £26million offer from Villarreal for defender Renato Veiga, the PA news agency understands. The Portugal left-back is reported to have agreed a seven-year deal and his ...

Ethel Caterham, of Lightwater, Surrey, who was born in August 1909, succeeded to the title of oldest living person in April.

The number of asylum seekers being housed temporarily in UK hotels has risen by 8% under Labour on the same point last year, according to newly published data.

Merseyside Police said the fire at Woolton Hall, Liverpool, on Tuesday ‘appears to have been an extremely reckless act’.

A young shepherd set the baa high with her GCSE results when she arrived to collect them with her sheep, Kevin. Milly Johnson, 16, who has won awards for sheep-handling, brought along the North ...

Historically, experts classified giraffes as a single species with nine subspecies, but that has been overturned by the new classification.

Barry Williams, Poundland’s managing director, said sticking to the £1 price point had prevented it from selling products that customers had to visit rival stores to buy. The chain billed the move as ...

Five fire engines were called to an address in Burnley on Tuesday night (August 19). At around 7.40pm, fire crews from Burnley and Padiham were called to Claremont Street. It was a waste fire outside ...

Russian forces launched more than 600 drones and missiles overnight, striking an American electronics factory in the west of Ukraine.