It follows a mixed picture in recent years, with one such attack in 2023 and 2022, none in 2021 and 2020, and five in 2019.

The hottest July temperature recorded in the UK is 40.3C, which was reached in Coningsby in Lincolnshire on July 19 2022. This was the first – and so far only – date on which temperatures above 40C ...

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Head coach Rhian Wilkinson, who was not on the coach as she and midfielder Angharad James travelled separately to the stadium for the pre-match press conference, said she believed all the players were ...

Campaigners and experts debated on whether utilities should be nationalised as ministers seek to ‘reset’ the failing sector.

Mirra Andreeva’s not-so-secret weapon in her Wimbledon title tilt is the former champion sitting in her box. The 18-year-old is on her best run so far at the All England Club having reached the ...

Sir Ian McKellen, Sienna Miller and Jodie Foster were among a cast of famous actors in Wimbledon’s Royal Box on day nine of the championships. Lord Of The Rings actor Sir Ian, who recently appeared on ...

An Oxfordshire duo accused of sex offences against two children are set to face trial at Oxford Crown Court next year.

A town's former library has been put on the market for £200,000. The property on Old Place Yard, Bicester, was the town's former library, which relocated to a larger premises in 2016. Bicester Library ...

County councillors are to be asked for an extra £1.43million to fund a new slip road on the A34 – before a spade has even touched the ground.

A married couple is set to open an independent patisserie, The Patisserie Box, at the Cotswolds Designer Outlet next week.

A public inquiry into the murders of three girls at a Southport dance class will identify changes that urgently need to be made to protect the most vulnerable from other “horrors”, the chairman has ...