Chancellor John Healey is facing competing demands to raise billions in extra taxes – including on banks – and to cut business costs as he prepares to deliver the first Budget of Andy Burnham’s Government..

Almost half a million people are set to receive a pay rise thanks to increases in the voluntary Real Living Wage announced today..

New wave band Blondie will release their first album in nine years, featuring the final recording of drummer Clem Burke..

The Metropolitan Police has confirmed it will be reopening a complaint over the arrest of Father Ted co-creator Graham Linehan after a watchdog found failings in its handling of the case.

A cyclist has been seriously injured following a collision with a car

A man has been jailed for three years after assaulting and choking a woman in a series of violent attacks

A man in his 20s suffered a serious head injury in an assault

Train services are being disrupted by a fault with the signalling system at Ford.