The initiative by Bexley Council to tackle littering with more patrols and higher fines has resulted in a significant rise in fixed penalty notices.

As 2025 draws to a close, we’ve rounded up some of the most bizarre and amusing stories that graced our pages this year.

Australia all-rounder Sophie Molineux has been ruled out of the Women’s Ashes with a knee injury. Molineux is the major absentee from the squad for the one-day internationals and T20s in the ...

A federal judge has signalled that Rudy Giuliani’s contempt hearing on January 3 might not end so well for the former New York City mayor. Two Georgia election poll workers are trying to collect a 148 ...

Two Canadian cabinet ministers left a meeting at Mar-a-Lago without assurances President-elect Donald Trump will back away from threatened tariffs on all products from the major American trading ...

A variety of domestic political issues lead Saturday’s headlines. The Daily Telegraph focuses on Nigel Farage, who says tech billionaire Elon Musk will help his Reform party beat the Tories. Sign up ...

Gavin And Stacey star Ruth Jones is reprising her role as Vanessa “Nessa” Jenkins to read Radio 4’s Shipping Forecast as the programme celebrates its centenary on the BBC on New Year’s Day.

A decades-long dispute over the ownership of the cannons included many twists, including concerns that they could be targetted by the ...

Reform UK’s Nigel Farage says he will spend the next couple of days weighing up possible action against Kemi Badenoch.

A 49-year-old man is to appear in court charged with two counts of murder after two women died following a suspected stabbing in Milton Keynes on Christmas Day. Jazwell Brown, of Santa Cruz Avenue, ...

A brown bear in Kent receiving life-saving brain surgery and the “Hardest Geezer” running the entire length of Africa were among the most eye-catching uplifting moments of 2024. Here, the PA news ...

A union leader has called for 2025 to be a “year of delivery” for workers after 14 years of “Tory chaos”. TUC general secretary Paul Nowak said in his new year message that working people desperately ...