Waitrose boss James Bailey is to step down from the supermarket chain later this year, parent group The John Lewis Partnership has said. Mr Bailey has led the upmarket grocery business as its managing ...

Seven breaches were serious enough to be reported to the UK’s data watchdog, the Information Commissioner’s Office.

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 ...

An English tourist is in a critical condition after a serious assault in Temple Bar in Dublin city. Emergency services attended the scene of the incident in the Temple Bar Square area at around ...

London and south-east England have seen larger year-on-year falls in the GCSE pass rate than all other regions, the 2025 exam figures show. Some 71.6% of entries in London were awarded grade 4 or ...

An Oswestry business had to call the fire service after one of its machines caught fire on Thursday morning. Papersort, formerly Oswestry Waste Paper in the Maesbury Road Industrial Estate, called the ...

The son and daughter of former Whitchurch businessman and passionate air pilot, Ray Grocott, who passed away in 2023, have provided funding to five young people to support their ambitions to gain a ...

A female motorist had a lucky escape after she rolled her hatchback on a dark country lane near Bridgnorth early on Thursday morning.

The former childminder, from Northampton, was ordered to serve 40% of her 31-month sentence in prison before being released on licence.

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

Here are the main numbers and trends in this year’s GCSE results: – The proportion of entries receiving the top grades has risen from last year and remains higher than before the Covid-19 pandemic. A ...

As a result of the tweaks, drivers making like-for-like restorations and repairs will no longer need to notify the DVLA, provided that the vehicle looks just the same as it did when originally ...