The former West Midlands mayor also said some of the issues that have taken up ‘airtime’ are not what voters in his region care about.

Four dead whales have washed up on the Kent coast despite a rescue effort by divers. The tragedy happened after a pod of nine pilot whales lost their way and ended up stranded on mudflats in the Swale ...

The King has sent a warm private congratulatory 100th birthday message to former US president Jimmy Carter, expressing his admiration for his life of public service. Mr Carter became the first former ...

BBC journalist Frank Gardner has criticised an airline after he was forced to “crawl on the floor” to reach a plane toilet because of a lack of onboard wheelchairs.

The family of a woman who lay dead in her flat for more than three years have said they “will never forget” the shock of seeing her heavily decomposed remains, an inquest has heard. Laura Winham’s ...

An independent inquiry into the death of Harry Dunn could be set up as early as November, the Foreign Secretary has told the teenager’s family. Harry’s mother, Charlotte Charles, told the PA news ...

Bedfordshire and Oxfordshire had their wettest month in records dating back to 1836, while other counties had their wettest September.

Organised criminals are suspected of unleashing 30,000 tonnes of garbage on a Kent beauty spot where a clean-up should soon begin.

A British-Lebanese family has been reunited after making a “terrifying” journey out of Beirut with missiles landing “left, right and centre”. At Heathrow Airport on Tuesday, 19-year-old Lara – who did ...

They will urge the party chairman to bring forward the result if they are in the final two so the winner can respond to the Budget.

Taylor Swift tickets given as gifts to politicians and their families are “only for the leaders of the Labour Party”, Robert Jenrick has said. Mr Jenrick and fellow Tory leadership candidate James ...

James Cleverly’s Conservative Party leadership race rival Robert Jenrick said he was ‘sorely tempted’ to scrap the charge.