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The company opened 70 new shops in 2021, and the additions this year will take its total stores to 870

Nissan has created a one-off Juke Hybrid Rally Tribute to pay homage to the firm’s participation in the East African Rally half a century ago.

Members of the band Joy Division have called for better mental health support during a panel in the Houses of Parliament marking 42 years to the day since their frontman Ian Curtis killed himself.

Britain’s biggest ever EuroMillions lottery winners will go public on Thursday.

The Home Secretary has said she is “pushing ahead” with plans to send migrants to Rwanda after more than 900 crossed the Channel in four days.

The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall honoured Canada’s war dead during a poignant wreath laying ceremony.

A Tory MP accused of rape and sexual assault offences spanning seven years has been released on bail pending further inquiries.

The Omicron variant of Covid-19 is much less likely than Delta to result in long Covid in people who have had two doses of vaccine, new figures suggest.

More than half of English councils are counting votes overnight

Hewa Rahimpur is suspected of being a leading figure in a network engaged in organising human trafficking via small boats

Ms. Pac-Man has been inducted into the World Video Game Hall of Fame, more than 40 years after blazing a trail for female video game characters.

Half of all people aged 75 and over in England have had their “spring booster” of Covid-19 vaccine, new figures show.

Apple, Google and Microsoft have announced a joint effort to support a new type of online sign-in which could replace passwords and is designed to make the web more “secure and usable for all”.

Channel 4 has laid out its alternative plan to privatisation, following the Government announcing its intention to take the broadcaster out of public ownership.

A man and a woman have pleaded guilty to being in charge of a dog that mauled a 10-year-old boy to death.

The mother of Baby P, who died after months of abuse, is set to be freed from prison after the Parole Board rejected a Government challenge against its ruling to release her.

A van driver who chased and ran over a man during a mass brawl on a public green has been jailed for 12 years.

A Nasa climate research scientist who has spent much of her career explaining how global food production must adapt to a changing climate has been awarded the World Food Prize.

It is local elections day across the United Kingdom, which means dogs have been accompanying their owners as they cast their votes.

Friday’s EuroMillions jackpot stands at an estimated £164 million and could make a single ticketholder the UK’s second-biggest winner of all time.

The UK and Japan have agreed a defence deal that will allow their national forces to “work more closely together”, according to Boris Johnson.

The Bank of England has hiked interest rates to 1% as it warned the economy will go into reverse and that inflation will peak at more than 10% as the Ukraine war compounds a crippling cost of living crisis.

Hundreds of lives are being lost to prostate cancer because of high levels of obesity among men, a new study suggests.

A mother-of-three who fell from a hire boat, got caught in the propeller and drowned would have been unlikely to have fallen if an adequate guardrail had been fitted, an investigation has found.

The Queen will miss the royal garden party season and be represented by other members of her family, Buckingham Palace has said.

Whoopi Goldberg says abortion is “a human issue” and has nothing to do with religion, following the publication of a highly controversial leaked draft opinion from the US Supreme Court.

The plane was nearly 40 minutes into it's journey from London Heathrow to New York

He hosted a reception for around 200 of them at St James' Palace

They're being asked to continue working part-time or from home in 'virtual wards'

An additional £45 million in funding is on it's way

Ukrainian refugees arriving in the UK under the family visa scheme with nowhere to live should not have to register as homeless when residents nearby are offering accommodation, the Government has been told.

The mother of two-year-old Julius Czapla said she will fight to ensure Lukasz Czapla “never leaves prison” after he was found guilty of murdering their son today.

The Duchess of Cambridge has celebrated the “inspiring work” of Britain’s leading fashion talent as she presented a prestigious prize to an emerging designer.

They were discovered near the ancient village of Pewsey in Wiltshire

Michael Ugwa, from Rainham, east London, was assaulted at the food court of Lakeside shopping centre in Thurrock last week.

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Two men have denied robbing Olympic cyclist Mark Cavendish and his wife Peta and face a trial later this year.

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has accused Labour’s London Mayor Sadiq Khan of breaking pre-election rules over the announcement of when the Elizabeth line will open.

A new survey has revealed that more than two-thirds of drivers have changed their driving habits since the cost-of-living crisis took hold.

Russian businesses will be banned from using UK-based accountancy firms, as new sanctions against major media organisations from the country have been announced.

Six-year-old Arthur Labinjo-Hughes faced “systematic brutality amounting to torture” leading up to his death, the Court of Appeal has heard during a review of the prison sentences of five killers.

A man accused of murdering a 66-year-old man in South Wales has appeared in court.

London’s Elizabeth line railway will open on Tuesday May 24, Transport for London (TfL) has announced.

Mel B and Roy Hodgson are among those due to receive royal honours at Buckingham Palace.

German investigators have found new evidence against the prime suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, a prosecutor has revealed in an interview on Portuguese television.

Wayne Couzens and the killers of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes are to have their prison sentences reviewed together at the Court of Appeal.

The European Union’s leader has called on the 27-nation bloc to ban oil imports from Russia in a sixth package of sanctions targeting Moscow for its war in Ukraine.

Ukrainian officials and the United Nations say they hope to arrange more evacuations from the bombed-out steel mill in Mariupol.

Average daily hospital admissions in England of people with Covid-19 have dropped below 1,000 for the first time in two months.

A former international footballer died from dementia caused by him heading the ball repeatedly during his decades-long playing career, an inquest has found.

Now considered a luxury, oysters have been sustainably harvested by indigenous peoples around the world for thousands of years, a new study suggests.

US president Joe Biden has said that the “basic fairness and the stability of our law demand” that the Supreme Court does not overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v Wade case that legalised abortion nationwide and said he would work to codify the right to abortion into federal law.

Former Tory MP Imran Ahmad Khan has formally quit Parliament after being convicted of sexually assaulting a boy.

A man has been found guilty of threatening a Labour MP by holding up a makeshift gallows with a noose outside Parliament and telling him “This is what we do to traitors”.

The socialite and former husband of heiress Petra Ecclestone, James Stunt, has gone on trial accused of being part of a £266 million money-laundering operation.

Boris Johnson has confirmed the UK will send a package of support worth £300 million to Ukraine in coming weeks, as he addressed the country’s parliament.

Covid measures for schools in Wales will be brought into line with guidance for businesses and other organisations, it was announced on Tuesday.

Ministers have been warned that increasing numbers of patients are being “stuck in hospital unnecessarily” after new figures showed a 58% increase in the number of days people spent in hospital when they were well enough to leave.

Overweight and obesity have reached “epidemic proportions” in Europe, causing an estimated more than 1.2 million deaths every year, according to a major new report.

More than 7,000 migrants have arrived in the UK after crossing the English Channel this year so far, figures show.

P&O Ferries will restart cross-Channel sailings for tourists for the first time since sacking nearly 800 seafarers.

Climate activists have blockaded an oil terminal to call for an end to new oil and gas projects.

Would-be sponsors under the Homes For Ukraine visa scheme are threatening the Government with legal action on behalf of hundreds of refugees who have spent weeks waiting to come to the UK.

The Prime Minister has admitted the UK could have reacted faster in helping Ukrainian refugees amid widespread criticism that families are being delayed in reaching safety.

Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to take part in the survey this weekend

The complete schedule for this year's celebration has now been revealed

Two NHS doctors on the front line in the fight against Covid-19 have taken to TikTok to encourage people to get vaccinated.