Consumer groups demanded action on affordability as green campaigners claimed there had been a ‘missed opportunity’.

Shigeru Ishiba’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its junior coalition partner Komeito were three seats short of maintaining a majority.

Essex - Crispin Bonham-Carter keeps a sailing boat in West Mersea (Image: Crispin Bonham-Carter) Crispin keeps a sailing boat in West Mersea and visits the county "almost every weekend" during the ...

The Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning for Essex and the southeast of England. Heavy showers and thunderstorms in the area will continue throughout the day, with flooding and disruptions ...

The system for regulating water companies in England and Wales should be overhauled and replaced with one single body, a landmark review of the sector has advised.

Owen Farrell will lead the British and Irish Lions for the first time in Tuesday’s match against the First Nations & Pasifika XV at Marvel Stadium. Farrell is given his maiden start of the tour 17 ...

Hundreds of people have been killed in week-long clashes between militias of the Druze religious minority and the Sunni ...

Japanese prime minister Shigeru Ishiba’s ruling coalition has failed to secure a majority in the 248-seat upper house in a ...

At least 85 people have been killed while trying to reach aid at locations across Gaza, the health ministry in the ...

At least five people died after a passenger ferry carrying hundreds of people caught fire at sea off Sulawesi island in ...

But as Mbeumo comes in, Marcus Rashford is ready to move on, having travelled to Catalonia on Sunday evening as he closes in on a move to Barcelona. PA understands a broad agreement has been reached ...

The inquiry, expected to launch in the autumn, will investigate the events surrounding clashes at the Orgreave Coking Plant in 1984.