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Two cross-country horse riders have died after incidents in separate competitions on Saturday, British Eventing has confirmed.

Fire crews remain at the scene of a fire that broke out at historic landmark Arthur’s Seat in Edinburgh on Sunday.

Loganair has temporarily scrapped flights across Scotland’s islands due to operational losses triggered by rising fuel prices due to the war in the Middle East

Emergency services rushed to a UK airport following an "incident" involving a light aircraft. Crews were called to Hawarden Airport in Flintshire, North Wales, on the border with Cheshire.

Katie Price’s jail-bird husband has made a new friend behind bars – his dad, Peter.

A woman whose sister was left brain dead after taking super-strength cocaine has sent an urgent warning to users as crime gangs flood UK streets with lethal coke which is 90% pure.

A family-run holiday park has found itself the target of online abuse and threatening phone calls after false information was circulated online suggesting they had ’taken government money to house migrants’.

Extra-tall ticket barriers will be installed at railway stations to guard against fare dodgers in a new crackdown that hopes to recoup the £400million-a-year loss to evaders.

The DEA fears criminal gangs are targeting football fans visiting the United States with counterfeit pills containing the powerful synthetic opioids.

Royal Mail has launched an investigation after a bride-to-be claimed her engagement ring, which carries deep sentimental value, was ’stolen’ after being sent to a Birmingham workshop.

South East Water will have to pay £30.5million after investigations by the water regulator found there had been ‘repeated’ supply failures.

A retired nurse who helped expose Jimmy Savile is locked in a £35,000 legal battle after the NHS threw him out of his family home.

An elderly man has been trampled to death by cattle while visiting a National Trust site.

A three-year-old boy has died after he fell from the fourth-floor window of a hotel in Cyprus.

Activists have hung a picture of former prince Andrew with notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in the heart of Buckingham Palace.

A university worker has been awarded over £51,000 in a disability discrimination case after her employer failed to account for her short-term memory issues when she misgendered a transgender colleague.

A light aircraft pilot wrote "I’m bored" during a two-hour test flight - with his mischievous flight path appearing on an online tracking app.

The heatwave that affected England and Wales in June killed about 440 people a day during its three-day peak, scientists have estimated. Across the whole of the June heatwave, plus the one in May, about 2,700 people lost their lives prematurely.

A recent survey has found that over half of GPs across Wales are failing to meet patient demand as a result of sustained underinvestment.

Two men have tragically died after rescuing a pair of children who had got into difficulty in the sea at a popular UK beach.

Firefighters dealt with more than 300 emergency calls as Eleventh Night bonfires were lit across Northern Ireland.

Rescue workers initially thought it was an echo - it seemed impossible that anyone would have survived as the flames swept across the ravine. But it was a cry for help, reports Spanish RTVE.