Royal Mail 'minded' to accept £3.5bn takeover proposal by Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky

Arlene Foster defends pandemic leadership and says 'offensive' to say Northern Ireland sleepwalked into COVID

Ukraine war: Zelenskyy cancels all foreign trips - as Russian troops 'partially pushed back'

Philippine ships deployed to watch activists sail to disputed Scarborough Shoal fishing area as China tensions grow

PM says no sex offenders part of early prison release scheme - but prisoner 'risk to children' released

Economic threats, record used car sales and a large investment in the UK

Thames Water investors to quit boards amid spectre of bailout

Brexit border IT crash delays fresh food imports by more than a day

King and Queen attend royal honours service at St Paul's Cathedral

New Caledonia: State of emergency to be declared as riots rage in French Pacific territory

WASP-193b: 'Super fluffy' candy floss planet bigger than Jupiter discovered by astronomers

Man with a knife appeared in my hotel room, woman tells trial of Madeleine McCann suspect

Rochdale: Child, 3, inside car involved in 'extremely dangerous' 150mph chase

Scottish government expected to declare national housing emergency

Bumble apologises for adverts appearing to mock celibacy

Warning to boil drinking water in Devon area after 22 cases of diarrhoea disease confirmed

Proteins in blood could warn of cancer seven years before diagnosis, scientists find

West has 'good hand in China economic battlefield but it doesn't have to be war'

Super Gran star Gudrun Ure dies aged 98

'It allows us to do our job': Ukrainian artillery team buoyed by fresh ammunition after costly wait on frontline

France prisoner escape: Day of blockades in French prisons as inmate called 'The Fly' on the run

Robert Fico: Slovakian PM in life-threatening condition after being shot multiple times

Emergency measure triggered to deal with prison overcrowding in England

Boeing could face prosecution in US over 737 MAX plane crashes which killed 346