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S ituated in the heart of rural Essex, Braintree offers a lot of options. London Liverpool Street station is only an hour on the train or, if you

After weeks of soggy weather, temperatures are expected to soar in parts of the UK next week. The south-east is predicted to experience the hottest weather, with the

There are eight times as many refugees and asylum seekers living in Labour-run parts of Britain as in Conservative areas, analysis by the Guardian has shown, amid grow

Just one of the team of 125 British embassy guards who were promised help to leave Afghanistan by the Foreign Office has made it to the UK. Faiz is in quarantine in

High numbers of under-30s are not coming forward for their second Covid-19 vaccine dose within the recommended 12 weeks, Public Health England data shows. According

‘T hey say you play this venue twice in your career: once on the way up and once on the way down,” jokes Declan McKenna, at the second of two

Joe Biden condemned the US supreme court on Thursday, saying it had delivered “an unprecedented assault on a woman’s constitutional right” in a rebuke of its dec

The attorney general’s office has been asked to review whether an unduly lenient sentence was handed to a neo-Nazi who was ordered to read classic literature such as P

The UK’s top climate adviser has pushed back strongly against “defeatist” criticism that the country’s net zero target is expensive, and urged the Treasury to

Dognappers will face tougher penalties under government plans to introduce a criminal offence of pet abduction. Pet theft is currently prosecuted under the Theft Act

The government is being urged to “get a handle” on the supply chain crisis, as the chair of a cross-party commission created to scrutinise the UK’s post-Brexit t

Hard-to-sell homes are being snapped up by the hundred as Britain’s booming property market maintains a year-long breakneck sales record. In areas of high demand, ev

T he 9/11 terrorist attacks catapulted the US and UK into a more intensive period of security partnership than any event since the second world wa

I am among those who have yet to escape what some are calling Plague Island (Britain) to travel abroad this year. I am considering it, but more l

Britain and its allies have no coherent plan to deal with the huge refugee crisis expected to follow the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, a former cabinet secretary

The UK’s wholesale food industry is warning that it cannot protect consumers from price rises forever, as they face soaring transportation costs and are having to spen

Winning tip: This place makes me happy, Lake District From the fairy farm trail, to watching the cows being milked while you tuck into a homemade yorkshire pudding r

S ay what you will about the rule of six: at least it was easy to keep up with everyone. Now that most restrictions in the UK have been lifted, we

The former chancellor Philip Hammond has been rebuked for using his government connections to assist a bank he is paid to advise. Eric Pickles, who chairs the Adviso

During an intense and often angry two-hour session in front of MPs, the foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, was peppered with questions that he either would not, could no

Boris Johnson’s decision to dispatch a senior spy chief to talk directly to the Taliban in Qatar reflects an uncomfortable but necessary reality: the UK has little opt

As demand for staff continues to outstrip labour supply in various sectors in the UK, we’re keen to hear whether workers have experienced wage growth in recent months.

Glasgow, the host city of the crucial Cop26 UN climate summit in November, has experienced its hottest summer on record, the Met Office has said. Scotland also recor

Keir Starmer should invite the Manchester mayor, Andy Burnham, and the Welsh first minister, Mark Drakeford, to join a powerful new “political cabinet” to help Lab