German president Frank-Walter Steinmeier has ordered the country’s parliament to be dissolved and set new elections for February 23 in the wake of the collapse of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s governing ...

Scotland welcomed 2024 in explosive style with the traditional fireworks display over Edinburgh Castle at the Hogmanay street party. The 12 months which followed saw electoral change, footballing ...

Soap supremo Sir Phil Redmond says that “courage has gone out of broadcasting” in recent years, and suggested that TV watchdog rules should be broken more often.

On the Norfolk and Suffolk border, the Forest Live concert series returns to High Lodge in June 2025. Brit Award-winning singer-songwriter Rag'n'Bone Man performs on the first night and his hits ...

A prison officer has been arrested after she was allegedly filmed having sex with an inmate. Footage of the guard and male prisoner was shared with prisoners at HMP Five Wells, Northamptonshire, the ...

Two men in their 40s have been arrested in connection with the alleged rape of a 19-year-old man in Brighton city centre. The victim reported being approached by two unknown men near Harry Ramsden’s, ...

A Norfolk platform that connects people with volunteering opportunities has processed more than 2,000 successful applications. The GetInVOLved platform, run by Voluntary Norfolk, has reached this ...

A Nasa spacecraft which made the closest-ever approach to the sun is safe and “operating normally”, the space agency said. On Christmas Eve, the Parker Solar Probe came within 3.8 million miles of the ...

South Korea’s opposition-controlled National Assembly has voted to impeach the country’s acting leader, Han Duck-soo. The assembly approved the impeachment motion in a 192-0 vote on Friday. Governing ...

Researchers called for the widespread adoption of services that allow patients to self-refer without a GP consultation.

The year has not been short of dramatic events and developments, and here the PA news agency provides a month by month look back on 2024.

Town bosses raked in almost a quarter of a million pounds over the past six years from car parking fines. From the beginning of 2019 until October 31 this year, people paid a total of £242,268.71 in ...