The Environment Department and regulators have two months to confirm they will take required steps to remedy the situation – ...

Children’s Commissioner Dame Rachel de Souza said: “The urgency with which this legislation is being introduced to Parliament demonstrates the importance of these issues. It lays a foundation for ...

The assessment also found about 2.4 million properties, from houses and flats to caravans, care homes and businesses, are in areas at risk of flooding from rivers and the sea in England, slightly ...

Friends of the Earth said that it and Greenpeace UK would intervene in support of five protesters seeking to appeal against their sentences.

Customers who suffer problems like low water pressure could receive payments of up to £250 – compared to the £25 currently available, Defra said.

Prosecutors and the defence have agreed to recommend a sentence of between four and six years in prison, according to the ...

The British actor plays a chief executive named Benedict Lumberjack whose company is benefitting from deforestation.

Greg Clark, who served as business secretary under Theresa May, is one of 16 people appointed to help the Government formulate its industrial strategy.

The Government faces renewed pressure to designate China a threat to national security after the naming of an alleged Chinese spy with close links to the Duke of York. Yang Tengbo, who denies ...

Sir Keir Starmer was speaking at the Joint Expeditionary Force conference in Estonia where he met leaders of Baltic states.

Google has named Debbie Weinstein, a senior executive for the tech giant in the UK, as its president in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Until now, Ms Weinstein has been the US firm’s vice ...

Photographs showed senior officials, including the UK’s special representative for Syria, Ann Snow, meeting HTS leader Ahmad al-Sharaa, formerly known as Mohammed al-Golani, in Damascus on Monday.