A student died after she got lost while diving at sea, when she got caught in an underwater vortex, an inquest has heard. Emily Sherwin, from Poole, went missing after a dive off Old Harry Rocks, near ...

Train passengers are being warned over disruption as Network Rail prepares to begin its Easter engineering work. The ...

MI5 files were not deliberately withheld from an investigation into the IRA agent known as Stakeknife, a review has found. The review was carried out following discovery of the material last year, ...

The Gender Recognition Act came into effect on April 4 2005, giving adults the right to legally change the sex that was recorded on their birth certificate. This is done by applying for a gender ...

ST HELENS Borough Council is set to launch a "significant transformation" of children's social care services The Families First Partnership Programme, following Department for Education (DfE) guidance ...

Mark is known to frequent St Helens, Rainhill, Warrington, Winwick, Bolton and Worsley, Greater Manchester. In an update issued this morning, Thursday, Merseyside Police confirmed that Mark had been ...

The Supreme Court said the terms woman and sex in the 2010 Equality Act ‘refer to a biological woman and biological sex’.

Police, paramedics, and the fire service were in attendance, with one individual reported to be "confined" to one of the vehicles. This person was treated at the scene by paramedics and taken to ...

Transgender people are “worried that people are coming after their right to exist” after the Supreme Court’s ruling, an MSP has said. The court handed down its decision on Wednesday in a long-running ...

In a statement, Scottish Power said: "There is a power cut in the WA11 postcode area of St Helens. "Our engineers have located grounded overhead line equipment from our high voltage electricity ...

Britain’s Got Talent will see a golden buzzer added to the live semi-finals for the first time, giving head judge Simon Cowell or Ant and ...

A minister has said she hopes the Supreme Court’s ruling on the legal definition of the term woman will draw a line under arguments over gender recognition, but accepted more “homework” needed to be ...