An eight-year-old mountaineer from Cumbria is taking on an “emotional” expedition up the three highest peaks in north Africa with his mother to be “closer to his grandad in heaven”.

The two runners have been awarded elite places at the Berlin Marathon, where they will be representing the Refugee Run Club, an organisation seeking to support refugees and asylum seekers by creating ...

Ms Duffield told the BBC the party was ‘in my heart and in my soul’, but she has lost her ‘faith’ in the leadership.

The death toll from flooding and landslides in Nepal has reached at least 100 people, with dozens still missing. Police said the death toll hit 100 on Sunday morning, adding it was expected to rise as ...

Massive rains from Hurricane Helene left people stranded, without shelter and awaiting rescue after the storm which killed at least 64 people, caused widespread destruction across the southeast of the ...

Freedom Party leader Herbert Kickl has used the term Volkskanzler, or chancellor of the people, which was used by the Nazis to describe Adolf Hitler.

A CORONER has opened an inquest into the death of a man who was found at his home in Colchester. Alan Steele, 48, was pronounced dead by paramedics when he was found at his address in Highwoods on ...

A former Colchester Hospital worker turned magician is set to dazzle audiences with his "proper magic". Danny Lee Grew, once a clinical support officer for the NHS, will bring his show to Colchester ...

Colchester Magistrates’ Court heard Bethany Baker, 27, was driving a Vauxhall Adam when she overtook a police car in Church Hill.

Simran Babbar, owner of Simple Beauty Lashes Salon on the High Street, is an inspiring example of how it’s never too late to pursue your dreams.

The average household energy bill is to increase by £149 from Tuesday as Ofgem increases its price cap just as homes move into the winter months.

Ofgem’s price cap is rising by £149 from the current £1,568 a year for a typical household in England, Scotland and Wales to £1,717.