Nobel Prize-winning author Abdulrazak Gurnah has said he did not pick literature as an A-level as it did not feel “useful”.

A 16-YEAR-OLD of boy has been taken to hospital with multiple injuries after a disturbance in Knowsley. Merseyside Police has launched an appeal following the incident on the evening, of Saturday, May ...

Wet weather across the bank holiday weekend is expected to end what has been a record-breaking start to spring. While Sunday and Monday will not be a complete washout, the Met Office said unsettled ...

Nigel Farage will commit to restoring the winter fuel payment to all pensioners and to scrapping the two-child benefit cap, reports have suggested. The Reform UK leader is expected to appeal to ...

THREE people have been jailed for more than 11 years after they admitted being part of county lines drugs gang operating in Warrington.

Several Palestinians and soldiers told the AP that Israeli troops are systematically forcing Palestinians to act as human ...

Sir Alan Bates has said the Government’s compensation schemes for victims of the Horizon IT scandal have been “turned into quasi-kangaroo courts”. The former subpostmaster, who has campaigned for ...

One lucky player scooped the £3.8 million Lotto jackpot in Saturday’s draw. The ticket-holder matched all six main numbers to win the top prize. Four players won £1 million after matching five out of ...

PROGRESS is being made on repairs at the site of a park wall that collapsed into a lake earlier this month. As reported previously, a small section of the wall that surrounds the lake at Taylor Park ...

Housebuilders who leave vital development sites unfinished for years could face losing their land to local councils under new Government rules. For the first time, developers will have to commit to ...

Cate Blanchett presented the award to Panahi, who three years ago was imprisoned in Iran before going on a hunger strike.

Striking taxi drivers in Paris are threatening to take their protest to the French Open and block access to Roland-Garros on Monday, if the government does not listen to their demands. The drivers are ...