The conversion of the upper floors of a historic corner building in Blackburn town centre into flats has been waved through by planning officers ...

Blackburn with Darwen Council is looking for a firm to take up a £90,000-a-year contract to clean the drainage gullies on its roads and ...

A long-term commitment to the triple lock on pensions is not in the scope of the resurrected Pensions Commission, Liz Kendall has said. The Work and Pensions Secretary has announced that she is ...

The Government said the reforms would mean there were ‘stronger rules, fewer quangos and clearer lines of accountability’.

Proposals to recruit more police officers and create new prison places contribute to the estimated £3.48 billion annual bill for the ...

Alexander Isak will remain a Newcastle player next season because nobody can afford to buy him. That is the view of former Magpies defender John Anderson amid frenzied speculation over the Sweden ...

A Bangladesh Air Force training aircraft crashed into a school campus in the capital, Dhaka, shortly after take-off on Monday, killing at least 18 people including the pilot and injuring 164 others, ...

The Wallabies hope to have big-hitting forwards Will Skelton and Rob Valetini back from injury for the second Test in Melbourne.

Derek Thompson felt the time was right to end his commentary career, as he prepares to pick up the microphone for the final time at Wolverhampton on Tuesday night.

Jan Brueghel, Lambourn, Rebel’s Romance and Calandagan are among the eight horses left in a potentially star-studded King George VI And Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot on Saturday.

Cain Byrne, 20, ignored a red light and was well over the 50mph limit when he hit Graham Slinn at a pedestrian crossing.

My dad, the late Stanley Thompson, he started commentaries in point-to-points and I think it was 1965 and halfway round at Great Ayton he turned the microphone off and said ‘I can’t see them anymore ...