Purgatory News

Electric vehicle (EV) chargepoint operators have urged the Chancellor to cut VAT on public charging..

It has been a bumper breeding year for rare wading birds at an important coastal site in Suffolk, despite avian flu and soaring temperatures, the National Trust said..

Record numbers of UK 18-year-olds have secured a place at university or college after the first exams since the pandemic, but an education leaders group warned that huge numbers of students are also missing out..

HMV is launching a music label, with the high street giant returning to making records for the first time in around 40 years..

Children are becoming more unhappy with their lives, schooling and appearance, according to research detailing the desperately worrying decline of childrens wellbeing in the UK..

A spacecraft built by Nasa is set to intentionally crash into a small asteroid as part of a planetary protection test mission..

GPs in England will need to offer non-urgent appointments within two weeks and urgent slots the same day under new plans from the Government..

Markets think the Bank of England will unveil the biggest hike in interest rates for over three decades when its decision makers meet on Thursday..

Manufacturers have slashed their growth forecasts for next year amid gathering storm clouds for industry..

Babies in the womb react to what their mothers eat and grimace when they taste and smell greens but smile for carrots, researchers have found..

A watchdog has raised serious concerns about the performance of the Metropolitan Police after it found the force was failing in several areas of its work..

JLS star Aston Merrygold has tied the knot with his long-term girlfriend, Sarah Louise Richards..

Boris Johnson was among the latest group of MPs to pledge allegiance to the King as the House of Commons met for the first time since the Queens funeral..

Vladimir Putin is desperately trying to justify a catastrophic failure in Ukraine, Liz Truss has said, accusing the Russian president of sabre rattling after he warned his country would use all the means at our disposal to protect itself..

The Environment Minister has ruled out introducing price caps on energy charges this winter..

President Biden said the war was an affront to the heart of what the international body stood for.

A judge branded comments made by a serving Metropolitan Police officer and a former constable sickening and abhorrent as they were convicted of sending grossly offensive messages in a WhatsApp group with Sarah Everards killer..

Detectives have said silence is not an option as a reward offered in the hunt for the killer of nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel was increased to £200,000..

The Prince of Wales has spoken of the great comfort he has taken in the enthusiasm of those supporting an environmental prize he founded, in a message recorded a day after the Queens funeral..

An infatuated driving instructor has been jailed after he broke a restraining order just nine days after it was imposed and drove more than 200 miles to see a former pupil he had been stalking..