Ambassador Cruise Line, which commissioned the research, described grandparents as ‘the anchors of family units across the country’.

Revulsion with Westminster’s “race to the right” will push Scots towards independence, John Swinney will tell SNP members as he closes the party’s conference on Monday.

Academy Award-winning director Sir Sam Mendes has accepted an invitation to be the newest patron of Purbeck Film Festival, saying he is “delighted” to be involved. Members of the Fox acting family ...

It plans to halt the sale of traditional copper-based phone and broadband services in a bid to encourage people to upgrade to digital.

A group of international scientists warned that several of Earth’s systems are rapidly approaching dangerous thresholds as temperatures rise.

Kemi Badenoch has written to Sir Keir Starmer asking him to address “unanswered questions” in Parliament over the collapse of a case against two alleged Chinese spies.

Boothby Wildland, the first ‘landscape recovery’ scheme supported by the Government, aims to be an ‘exemplar’ in using private finance ...

The UK’s longest-surviving heart and lung transplant recipient has described how she was given the “gift of a normal life”. Katie Mitchell had a combined heart and lung transplant 38 years ago.

The Prime Minister will join other world leaders at a summit marking the signing of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.

Concerns over a lack of segregated cycle lanes decreased by three percentage points to 35% for men, but rose by one percentage point to 44% for women. Some 58% of women said their cycling journeys ...

Researchers have developed a new method to extract high-quality protein from rapeseed waste, saying the discovery could help solve the world’s growing demand for protein. Using environmentally ...

Property firm Hamptons said new landlords ‘have increasingly become an endangered species in markets across southern England’.