Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, wrote of an unspecified great matter of state said to bear directly on the Queen’s life.

The actor and comedian was caught travelling at 97mph on the M6 near Telford, Staffordshire, in July last year.

Around 250,000 20p coins minted in November 2008 are believed to have entered circulation with no date. And now one has sold on eBay, attracting a winning bid of £97, 485 times its face value. The 50 ...

The Bank voted to reduce the cost of borrowing on Thursday, but slashed its growth forecasts for the UK economy.

The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh planted a magnolia tree, metres away from a pair planted by the late Queen and Duke of Edinburgh in 1986.

Those covered in the 60-minute film include Olive Gordon, a 25-year-old hairdresser, and Greek shipping titan Minas Kulukundis.

The boss of drugmaker AstraZeneca has said he was “very disappointed” with the firm’s move to scrap plans for a £450 million vaccine plant in Liverpool, but insisted the business case did not stack up ...

Jurors have been sent out to begin their deliberations in the trial of a 70-year-old man who is accused of the murder of 86-year-old widow Una Crown in 2013. Retired postmistress Mrs Crown was found ...

Questions have previously been raised about links between Britain’s new ambassador to the US and the paedophile financier.

The police watchdog has insisted it will publish the findings of an investigation into the contact officers had with Nottingham triple killer Valdo Calocane despite his victims’ families being “gagged ...

Britain would oppose any effort to move Palestinians in Gaza to neighbouring Arab states against their will, a Foreign Office minister has said. Anneliese Dodds issued a clear rejection of a proposal ...