All news by author Thomas Brown

The UK Foreign Office has updated its travel advice after reports of holidaymakers being prevented from leaving the country and having their passports seized

The PCS Union today announced hundreds of its members who work in passport control at terminals 2, 3, 4 and 5 of Heathrow will walk out at the end of the month

Carpetright owed almost £350m when it collapsed into administration with the loss of more than 1,500 jobs before being rescued, it has been revealed.

Former chief inspector of prisons Nick Hardwick says money would be better spent preventing crime

Scottish ministers have scrapped a universal winter fuel payment and are preparing deep cuts in other spending after the UK chancellor, Rachel Reves’s, warnings of a £22bn black hole.

Sale of hundreds of empty homes designed, but not used, for Commonwealth Games attacked as ‘absolute scandal’

Paul Spiers has been cleaning the streets of Beckenham, south London, for years and is a much-loved figure. Locals donated £3,000 so he could have a holiday to Portugal

Rioters across the country are being jailed as the government warns those found to have taken part in the unrest would face the "full force of the law".

A woman who stabbed her ‘sugar daddy’ to death after he ‘ran out of money’ has been jailed for 25 years.

At Surrey Coroner’s Court in Woking, Area Coroner Simon Wickens offered his "sincere condolences" not just to Mr Thorpe’s family, but to "all those touched by his life and career".

President Volodymyr Zelensky’s forces launched a shock invasion into Russian territories at the weekend as they fight back against the Russian oppressors, with Putin’s next move unknown

The Treasury has made it clear that reform will be needed as Rachel Reeves begins pivotal review of public finances

An escalation in violence involving major Turkish gangs has spilled over into European cities, where suspected mafia figures have been shot in broad daylight.

Transport secretary had ‘no choice’ but to approve cuts – but warns she will take further action if improvements not made

The case involving a lawsuit filed by NEC Ukrenergo against Alliance Bank over the payment of a bank guarantee amounting to UAH 1.7 billion has been in court for more than two years, including a year and a half in the Northern Commercial Court of Appeal.

Jordan Parlour is one of the first people in the UK to be sentenced for stirring up racial hatred from the comfort of his home after the 28-year-old from Leeds wrote vile posts on Facebook

The United Arab Emirates suspended this week operations in 32 of its gold refineries after inspections revealed that its gold sector had committed hundreds of anti-money laundering violations.

Starmer: police to remain on ’high alert’ heading into the weekend

Day 13 of the Olympics is already well underway with Team GB winning their 13th gold in Paris courtesy of Eleanor Aldridge in the kite surfing.

Amid rising medicine prices, low health insurance coverage, and stagnant household incomes, alarming reports reveal that nearly a fifth of the drugs circulating in Africa are counterfeit, frequently slipping through regulatory cracks.

Thames Water, Yorkshire Water and Northumbrian Water face £168m fines by the industry regulator over historic sewage spills.