A software engineer has completed his year-long challenge of doing 300 press-ups every day in memory of his mother who had ...

The last crossings of the year took place on December 29, when 291 people made the journey from France in six boats.

A 32-year-old man was arrested after one officer died and another was seriously injured in the incident in the South Island city of Nelson.

A total of 36,816 people were detected crossing the Channel in small boats during 2024, according to provisional figures from the Home Office. This is 25% higher than the 29,437 people who arrived in ...

The year is set to see bands reunite, music titans releasing new music and major artists being taken to court.

Northern Scotland is expected to be hit with snow on New Year’s Day, as organisers of the cancelled Hogmanay event in Edinburgh branded this week “challenging”. The Met Office’s yellow warning that ...

There was a record turnout for the festive Great Brook Run with muddy entrants crawling along a river bed in Chadlington, Oxfordshire.

From Sydney to Mumbai to Nairobi, communities around the world have welcomed 2025 with spectacular light shows, embraces and ice plunges. The New Year’s Eve ball dropped in soggy Times Square, where ...

A pupil at an Oxford school has won a long-running arts prize created in honour of a student hit by a car while cycling home along the A40 ...

Great Western Railway (GWR) has launched a January sale, offering 150,000 lower-cost train tickets. The train company is providing 100,000 standard class seats and 50,000 first class seats at half ...