United Utilities, the first company to impose a hosepipe ban on customers in England since 2012, is losing up to 25 per cent of its daily water usage through leaks and crumbling infrastructure, whilst continuing to pay significant dividends to shareholders.

John Watkins joined the RAF in 1942 and served with 617 Squadron - also known as "The Dambusters".

Campaigners call for greater transparency to facilitate adoption of advanced non-animal methods Home Office figures released today reveal that 3,721,744 mice, fish, rabbits, dogs, rats, monkeys and other animals were used for research in UK laboratories last year. With the full extent of their suffering unknown, and whether modern non-animal methods could have been used in their place, the National Anti-Vivisection Society ...

Nine-month-old Willow picks up discarded plastic bottles during morning walks in West Park, Goole

The UK’s leading vegan and farmed animal charities and NGOs are coming together in London today to discuss challenges and explore opportunities in the movement to help it become more successful. Leaders from ten organisations will meet to discuss their plans, how they might learn from each other and, most ...

Ringleader Christopher Lythgoe, 32, was jailed for eight years while henchman Matthew Hankinson, 24, was jailed for six years at the Old Bailey

One year-old infants whose mothers had the blues during pregnancy had higher levels of a stress hormone, British study found.

A total of 21 skulls - believed to be around 700 years old - were stolen from a shelving display within the crypt at St Leonard’s Church in Hythe

Naa’Imur Rahman, 20, wanted to detonate a bomb at the Downing Street security gates before storming the front door of No. 10 armed with a knife or a gun