Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is to ask banks if they can do more to support struggling households after a shock interest rate hike deepened the mortgage crisis..

A man has been charged after two people were stabbed at a hospital in north-west London..

A statement moments ago, from the US Coastguard has confirmed catastrophic damage to the pressure chamber on the craft. .

The Bank of England has pushed up interest rates to 5%, the highest rate in almost 15 years, as policymakers and the UK Government come under mounting pressure to control the cost-of-living crisis..