Purgatory News

Motorists are being warned to expect a surge in traffic as train passengers switch to road transport during the rail strikes..

Relatives of a 12-year-old boy at the centre of a life-support treatment dispute are preparing to mount an appeal bid after a High Court judge concluded that the youngster is dead..

Around one in seven (14%) 65-year-olds were in income poverty in late 2020 as a direct consequence of the state pension age rising from 65 to 66, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS)..

Former health secretary Jeremy Hunt has revealed that he had cancer and has since recovered..

Englands Matt Fitzpatrick produced a moment of magic on his way to claiming his first major title and a historic double in the 122nd US Open at Brookline..

Ed Sheeran was the most played artist of 2021 in the UK, and also claimed the years most played single with Bad Habits..

Sport Secretary Nadine Dorries has voiced strong support for the move to ban trans swimmers from competing in elite womens events..

Britains membership of the Commonwealth provides a unique opportunity to expand its trade with a series of vast and growing markets now that it has left the EU, Boris Johnson has said..

Eddie Jones played down the significance of a record 52-21 rout by the 14-man Barbarians even though it sent England crashing to the heaviest defeat of his reign..

Nadine Dorries has said that if the public took too much notice of Channel 4 News then the Conservative Party would not have its majority in Parliament..

Firefighters in Spain and Germany struggled to contain wildfires on Sunday amid an unusual heatwave in western Europe for this time of year..

French President Emmanuel Macrons alliance got the most seats in the final round of the parliamentary election but lost its parliamentary majority, projections show..

Swimmings world governing body FINA has voted to ban athletes who have gone through male puberty from racing in womens events..

England fell to a third successive defeat as the Barbarians overcame a first-half red card shown to Will Skelton to win 52-21 at Twickenham, their biggest victory in the fixture..

The daughter of a Muslim man killed in a north London terror attack has given a moving and tearful tribute to him on the fifth anniversary of his death..

Ellis Genge was the target of racist abuse on social media just hours after leading Leicester to victory over Saracens in Sundays Gallagher Premiership final..

Sadiq Khan has joined tens of thousands of people on a bike ride from London to Brighton to raise money for research into heart and circulatory diseases..

QPR have signed Dutch defender Kenneth Paal on a three-year deal..

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar said the next chance to get rid of Boris Johnson will be at a general election..

Tributes have been paid to TV presenter and journalist Aideen Kennedy, who has died at the age of 43 after a terminal illness..