The arrangement would more than halve staff turnover and free up money to hire an extra 2,345 workers, officials say.

No ticket holders won £500,000 by matching all five numbers plus the Thunderball. Three players did match all five regular numbers, earning them £5,000 each.

The singer-songwriter, 79, has previously picked up a shovel to fill the crevasses along his damaged road in Essex.

Pension “megafunds” are set to be created to help unlock billions of pounds of investment in businesses and infrastructure. Rachel Reeves will use her first Mansion House speech as Chancellor to ...

Trustees of the Sir Percival David Foundation are to donate 1,700 pieces to the London museum, based in the city’s Bloomsbury ...

Paul Mescal, Denzel Washington, Connie Nielsen, Pedro Pascal and director Sir Ridley Scott walked the red carpet in London.

President-elect Donald Trump named Marco Rubio of Florida as his nominee for secretary of state on Wednesday, setting up a ...

Euston Station in central London has deteriorated to the point where its marble columns are held together by bands because “it would fall off without them”, the rail minister has said. Lord Hendy of ...

A number of costumes and props from films were put on show at Buckingham Palace for the reception, including costumes worn by Joseph Quinn in his role as Emperor Geta in Gladiator II, and the costume ...

The daughter of former cricketer Lord Botham has batted away an “unnecessarily aggressive and accusatory attack” on her father over his failure to turn up at Westminster. Sarah Botham said it had ...

A proposed independent football regulator risks suffocating clubs and stifling their ambition, Apprentice star Baroness Karren Brady has warned. The West Ham United vice chair said the watchdog would ...

Labour’s Chris Webb described the growing trend of ‘formula foraging’ as low-income parents attempted to feed their children.