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New Ofcom figures that show TV streaming services have overtaken pay-TV in Britain confirm that the way we consume media has "fundamentally changed", a TV expert has said. The number of Britons subscribing to TV services like Netflix, Amazon and Sky’s NOW TV, has overtaken traditional satellite and cable TV for the first time. Streaming services attracted 15.4 million subscribers in the first quarter, ahead of 15.1 million pay-TV contracts. But pay-TV subscription revenue of 6.4 billion pounds in 2017 was...

They were hunting a possible massive planet beyond Pluto when they stumbled upon the mysterious satellites - one of which has been described as an "oddball".

Scorned woman sprayed 'lady slut' and 'big dick lord' after Tory slept with wife of another Lord

The Brexit mess is leaving many people inside and outside of parliament totally at a loss at where is can go from here. Today Winson Churchill’s grandson, Sir Nicholas Soames launched into the debate, in a nonsense speech in Parliament. He was furious after the Vote Leave campaign broke electoral law during the EU vote. A massive £600,000 was handed over to a 23-year-old in the lead up to the crucial 2016 vote. This transfer of cash meant that Vote...

Fox News looks to have turned its back on Donald Trump following his controversial summit with Vladimir Putin. Several of its high-profile journalists have criticised the President in a rare attack. Fox Business's Neil Cavuto labelled Trump's refusal to challenge Mr Putin on Russian election meddling “disgusting” and said the president was “essentially letting the guy get away with this, not even offering a mild, a mild criticism". Trish Regan, also of Fox Business, branded the president's appearance "unpatriotic". “He...

A total of eight people appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court today (tues) to indicate not guilty pleas of fraud or conspiracy to commit fraud by submitting legal costs the Courts and Tribunals Service.

The Government’s refusal to change its position on monthly calculations for Universal Credit payments will continue to unfairly punish the self-employed, IPSE (the Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed) said today. The Government ruled out making changes to the system of monthly calculations in its response released today to the Work and Pensions Committee ‘Universal Credit for the Self-Employed’ report. IPSE’s Policy Development Manager, Jordan Marshall, comments:“It is disappointing that the Government hasn’t listened to the repeated warnings of industry, trade...

Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable and his predecessor Tim Farron have been criticised for missing key votes on Brexit last night, despite pedalling an anti-Brexit agenda. According to party sources Cable was "off the parliamentary estate at an important meeting” and his absence was “approved by LibDem whips” - because the party “didn’t expect vote to be close”. As Robert Peston noted on Twitter this morning, it's a "shame in this age of social media there’s no way of staying in touch"....

Vote Leave has been fined and referred to police after exceeding its spending limit by almost half a million pounds in the referendum. An investigation by the Electoral Commission found "significant evidence of joint working" between the group and another organisation - BeLeave - leading to it exceeding its spending limit by almost £500,000. Vote Leave also returned an "incomplete and inaccurate spending report", with almost £234,501 reported incorrectly, and invoices missing for £12,849.99 of spending, the watchdog said. According the conclusions of...