The strike action is affecting 36 ports and is the first by the International Longshoremen’s Association since 1977.

The former Home Office minister insisted he was unable to go into ‘particular cases’ when pressed to back up his claim.

A lorry has fallen more than 60 feet from a bridge on the M6 in Cheshire. The vehicle plummeted from the Thelwall Viaduct between junctions 20 and 21, landing on the embankment below, Cheshire ...

Tesco and Sainsbury’s have been accused of misleading their customers over their front-of-store recycling schemes. The accusation comes after an investigation found that most soft plastic returned to ...

Already the longest-lived of the 45 men to serve as US president, Jimmy Carter has reached the century mark. The 39th president, who remains under home hospice care, turned 100 on Tuesday October 1, ...

Victoria Lupton has been in Lebanon with her husband and two-year-old daughter since September 17 and has a flight out booked for Wednesday.

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COLCHESTER Rugby Club's players will rue unforced errors and a high penalty count as a chance to claim their first win in National 2 rugby slipped away, writes EDWARD MARRIAGE. The Blacks lost 38-19 ...

Tory leadership hopeful James Cleverly has said he supports Israel’s military incursion into Lebanon. The former foreign secretary said that Israel has “the right to defend itself” but that his ...

The Georgia Democrat and 39th president was born on October 1 1924 in Plains, where he has lived more than 80 of his 100 years.

ITV1 and ITV2 will disappear from certain TV boxes in the UK from October due a satellite service upgrade - see who will be affected.

Energy bills will rise by £149 for the average household from October 1 after Ofgem announced it would be raising its energy price cap ...