From peppermint to marigolds, these are five plants that rats hate - you can keep the rodents away by adding these to your garden.

POLICE are investigating a fire at a nature reserve believed to be arson. Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service were called to Slop Bog nature reserve in Ferndown at 7pm on Saturday, July 19 ...

Police officers faced their “worst nightmare” when they opened suitcases containing body parts on Clifton Suspension Bridge, a senior detective has said. Avon and Somerset Police were called to the ...

Britain’s ambassador warned that President George W Bush was bent on the overthrow of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein as part of a “mission” to rid the world of “evil-doers”, according to newly released ...

The first wave of sanctions to be imposed on Wednesday will target those involved in supplying small boats for Channel crossings.

Lord Beamish said the cross-party group would launch a probe after considering defence assessment documents related to the case.

Avon and Somerset Police were called to the Bristol landmark just before midnight on July 10 last year, after bridge staff became suspicious.

Irish actor and comedian, Brendan O’Carroll, has said the storylines for Mrs Brown’s Boys are “based on true events”. O’Carroll, 69, who is best known for playing the menacing matriarch, Agnes Brown, ...

The cost of policing protests outside a hotel in Essex believed to be housing asylum seekers has reached £100,000, police said. Eight police officers were injured following what started as a peaceful ...

The Israeli government is “tarnishing” its reputation by ignoring calls from Britain and other nations for an end to the Middle East war, David Lammy has warned, after it dismissed international ...

Changes are to be made to the compensation scheme for victims of the infected blood scandal, officials have announced following a heavily critical report on the way people were being compensated.

Malcolm-Jamal Warner, the actor who played teenage son Theo Huxtable on The Cosby Show, has died aged 54 in an accidental drowning in Costa Rica, authorities there said. Costa Rica’s Judicial ...