The public are encouraged to use mobile phone apps to report issues the police, and drones are also used for surveillance.

Hamas said it has accepted a proposal from mediators to release one living American-Israeli hostage and the bodies of four dual-national hostages who died in captivity.

Sir Ashley Fox, MP for Bridgwater, has welcomed significant investment in local bus services following his meetings with First Bus and ...

The son of an Oxfam volunteer who was struck and killed by a bus on the world’s longest guided busway said it was “such a preventable accident”, a court heard. Three people died in separate incidents ...

Claudiu Carol Kondor, 42, was delivering parcels in Leeds last year when “career criminal” Mark Ross, 32, climbed into his van and drove away ...

Sir Martyn Oliver, chief inspector of Ofsted, said giving parents the information they need in a clear and accessible way was a ‘must-have’.

The Royal College of Nursing’s governing council voted in 2009 to move to a neutral stance on assisted dying for terminally-ill people while doctors’ union the BMA shifted from a position against ...

It is 56 years since the Magpies won a trophy and 70 since they lifted a domestic cup, and they face mighty Liverpool in the Carabao Cup on Sunday ...

Jessie Holmes, a former reality television star, has won the longest-ever Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Alaska. Holmes was first to the finish line in the Gold Rush town of Nome, on the Bering Sea ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has met US envoy Steve Witkoff to discuss details of the American proposal for a 30-day ceasefire in the war with Ukraine, and asked him to convey Moscow’s thoughts to ...

An actress who was said to have been groped by Noel Clarke denies having been touched inappropriately and said she never spoke to Guardian journalists before they published allegations of sexual ...

A convicted killer who “terrified” Girls Aloud singer Cheryl Tweedy by repeatedly turning up to her home has been jailed. Daniel Bannister, 50, admitted turning up at the 41-year-old’s Buckinghamshire ...