New family houses – including 30 percent affordable homes – will be built more rapidly at a key housing site thanks to additional funding being ploughed into the project.

A new website has been set up to give residents the chance to help protect against flooding in Hull.

Severn Trent Water has been fined £500,000 for discharging thousands of gallons of raw sewage from its sewer network onto land at Sutton Park, West Midlands.

UK team of health and emergency response workers is flying to the region hit by Cyclone Idai today to help assess health needs following the disaster.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond’s speech at the Annual Asian Business Awards.