Speedy Hire has cautioned over “challenging” conditions due to Government spending delays, after shutting eight depots in the face of heightened cost pressures. Shares in the equipment hire firm ...

Two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova has also been given a wild card after returning to the sport following the birth of her son. Seven British men have been given wild cards into the main draw, ...

A school where more than 30% of students qualify for free school meals and more than half speak English as an additional language is in the running for a global education prize. Rivers Academy West ...

Watford-area babies are being sought for the filming of an upcoming BBC drama. Casting agency Daisy and Dukes has put out a call for children born after January 2025 to be used for filming. The shoot ...

Annabel Rook, 46, was found fatally injured at a house in Dumont Road, Stoke Newington, north-east London on Tuesday morning.

Experts have said that inflation is set to remain elevated over the coming months, particularly if global oil prices continue to spike.

The Owen Burrows-trained Falakeyah was supplemented for the mile Group One following an effortless Listed win in Newmarket’s Pretty Polly Stakes, with connections opting by bypass a possible French ...

Two males smashed a glass door to break into a Watford home, sparking an appeal for information on the Green Lane burglary.

A member of rap trio Kneecap has arrived at court to face a terrorism charge as hundreds of people turned out with placards and flags in a show of support. Liam Og O hAnnaidh, who performs under the ...

The annual rate of house price growth fell to 3.5 in April, from 7.0 in March, the Office for National Statistics said.

Former head of Watford’s Academy Nick Cox is set to leave Manchester United to become Everton’s new technical director.

Manchester United academy chief Nick Cox is set to become technical director at Everton, the PA news agency understands. The Toffees are in the midst of a restructure under the Friedkin Group ...