Keir Starmer's plans to build 1.5 million new homes before the next election have been hit by a new blow as the UK faces a shortage of scaffolders.
At least 6,000 new scaffolders are needed each month to keep to Labour's building targets and to replace retiring workers, according to the National Access and Scaffolding Confederation (NASC).
The BBC has sparked a major backlash over its BAFTAs coverage after editing out 'Free Palestine' during one speech while keeping in a racial slur in another.
BAFTAs host Alan Cumming was forced to apologise to viewers after Tourette's activist John Davidson was heard yelling the N-word during a presentation by black actors Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo.
A Christian street preacher was arrested on suspicion of 'inciting religious hatred' after he delivered a sermon 'on Islam and transgender ideology'.
Dia Moodley's legal counsel ADF UK, which is part of faith-based legal organisation Alliance Defending Freedom, said the 58-year-old pastor was detained for eight hours in November last year.
The intended target in the kidnapping of missing grandfather Chris Baghsarian has been identified, as a focused police search continues in Sydney's northwest.
Mr Baghsarian, 85, was snatched from his home in North Ryde in what police believed to be a case of mistaken identity about 5am on February 13.
President Donald Trump is 'considering assassinating the son of Iran's supreme leader' as brave protestors have marched again in Tehran chanting 'death to Ayatollah' over the weekend.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's 55-year-old son, Mojtaba Khamenei is his father's most likely successor due to close ties with the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp (IRGC) - a powerful branch of the armed forces designated a terrorist group by the US.
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor annoyed figures around the world and kept such 'dubious' company while acting as trade envoy that Whitehall officials raised concerns, it has emerged.
Insiders from the former coalition government claimed yesterday that Andrew was widely viewed as a liability, but terminating his official role was considered politically sensitive because it risked dragging Buckingham Palace into a row.
A windsurfing doctor was savagely mauled to death in a shark attack while his horrified family watched from the beach on a holiday paradise island.
The 55-year-old was catching waves on a popular beach on New Caledonia - a French territory in the South Pacific, east of Australia - when he suddenly was seen thrashing around in the water.
Disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein hid hard drives and photos from authorities in multiple storage lockers across the country, a report said.
The pedophile rented at least six units, the majority of which were in Florida, paying thousands between 2003 and 2019, according to an investigation by The Telegraph.
Tourists have been left stranded and 'praying to make it home' after violence erupted in Mexico following the killing of the country's most notorious drug kingpin.
Following the death of Jalisco New Generation Cartel leader Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, also known as El Mencho, on Sunday, gunmen unleashed bloody chaos across several Mexican cities.
Westminster is set to push for greater scrutiny of the Royal Family.
MPs will return to Parliament today following a week-long recess with a clamour for answers over the Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor scandal.
The former prince is under investigation for allegedly leaking confidential information to paedophile Jeffrey Epstein and other wealthy contacts while serving as the UK's trade envoy.
NHS staff have been told they can use the pronouns 'Xey/Xem' at work as part of a plan to boost 'inclusion in the workplace'.
The gender-neutral pronouns - often used within nonbinary and trans communities - can be used as alternatives to I/me, She/her, He/him, They/them, Ze/Zir or It/Its depending on the colleague's preference.
A wealthy French couple who decked out their £2.5million home with colourful metre-high planters have been ordered to tear them down after a bitter planning spat with 'hostile' neighbours.
When Nicolas Joseph and his wife Stephanie revamped the roof terrace of their four-bedroom family home in an exclusive Notting Hill mews, it reignited a years-long feud that began with the previous owner, controversial trans barrister Lady Samantha Kane.
