A student died after she got lost while diving at sea, when she got caught in an underwater vortex, an inquest has heard. Emily Sherwin, from Poole, went missing after a dive off Old Harry Rocks, near ...

MI5 files were not deliberately withheld from an investigation into the IRA agent known as Stakeknife, a review has found. The review was carried out following discovery of the material last year, ...

The Gender Recognition Act came into effect on April 4 2005, giving adults the right to legally change the sex that was recorded on their birth certificate. This is done by applying for a gender ...

The Supreme Court said the terms woman and sex in the 2010 Equality Act ‘refer to a biological woman and biological sex’.

Transgender people are “worried that people are coming after their right to exist” after the Supreme Court’s ruling, an MSP has said. The court handed down its decision on Wednesday in a long-running ...

From Haskins to Blue Diamond, here are the Easter bank holiday opening times for six garden centre chains in the UK.

New research shows that four people in 10 make major retirement mistake when it comes to knowing their DWP State Pension age ...

A Metropolitan Police officer has been dismissed without notice after a misconduct hearing concluded he had assaulted and threatened a woman he knew.

A minister has said she hopes the Supreme Court’s ruling on the legal definition of the term woman will draw a line under arguments over gender recognition, but accepted more “homework” needed to be ...

A team from the University of Cambridge made the discovery on exoplanet K2-18b, which is 124 light years away from Earth.

A person has died following a incident at Mill Hill Broadway Station yesterday evening. The London Ambulance Service confirmed they were called to the scene at 6.09pm on Wednesday, April 16, after ...