A student died after she got lost while diving at sea, when she got caught in an underwater vortex, an inquest has heard. Emily Sherwin, from Poole, went missing after a dive off Old Harry Rocks, near ...

MI5 files were not deliberately withheld from an investigation into the IRA agent known as Stakeknife, a review has found. The review was carried out following discovery of the material last year, ...

The Gender Recognition Act came into effect on April 4 2005, giving adults the right to legally change the sex that was recorded on their birth certificate. This is done by applying for a gender ...

A coastal management scheme which led to alterations to a seaside destinations car park are to be permanently kept to ease congestion.

A footpath near the Mill in Horstead has been forced to close for three weeks due to "dangerous trees" near the area.

Meanwhile, a Ukrainian delegation was in Paris for a round of bilateral and multilateral meetings with representatives of countries from the “coalition of the willing,” including France, Germany and ...

Wells RNLI D-class lifeboat Peter Wilcox has been launched to rescue 12 people and four dogs who had been cut off by the incoming tide.

The Supreme Court said the terms woman and sex in the 2010 Equality Act ‘refer to a biological woman and biological sex’.

Transgender people are “worried that people are coming after their right to exist” after the Supreme Court’s ruling, an MSP has said. The court handed down its decision on Wednesday in a long-running ...

A Grade II listed home in the sought-after coastal village of Blakeney is for sale at a guide price of £995,000. Selling agent Jackson-Stops said: “A charming and beautifully proportioned home nestled ...

A minister has said she hopes the Supreme Court’s ruling on the legal definition of the term woman will draw a line under arguments over gender recognition, but accepted more “homework” needed to be ...

A convicted killer is believed to have died from a head injury at a high-security prison as another inmate remains under arrest on suspicion of his murder. John Mansfield, who was jailed for life in ...