Here the PA news agency looks at five talking points heading into the match. Hot on the heels of an unsuccessful autumn, Steve Borthwick is confronted with a trio of fixtures that could imperil his ...

England suffered more torment at the Women’s Ashes as they dropped seven catches to allow a dominant Australia to assume total control of the day/night Test in Melbourne. The ignominy of a 16-0 clean ...

Dame Diana Johnson said the issue had been raised with her numerous times (PA) Since February, it has been a criminal offence to own an XL bully dog in England and Wales without a ...

Hamas has released the names of three male hostages set to be released on Saturday. The list includes Yarden Bibas, 35, Keith Siegel, 65, and Ofer Kalderon, 54, Israeli officials confirmed, speaking ...

It comes after the National Audit Office warned the Home Office had ‘historically underspent’ funding allocated to tackle the issue.

Another runner-up effort at Cheltenham in the autumn continued the Surrey Racing-owned gelding’s progress in the staying division and he now attempts to bounce back from a minor blip at Newbury over ...

Jurors have been shown multiple videos of a Chinese PhD student allegedly raping nine women –with one incident taking place at a flat in ...

One lucky ticket holder has not yet claimed the £83,474,081 jackpot prize from the EuroMillions draw on Friday January 24.

Police forces need to make decisions locally on how many officers to have, a minister has said after some warned of funding pressures. Policing minister Dame Diana Johnson said she was “not pretending ...

Leading racehorse owner John Hales has died at the age of 85. Hales, who made his money through the Golden Bear Toys company he co-founded in 1979, which went on to produce products from major ...

Chelsea agreed a world-record deal to sign USA defender Naomi Girma for around £900,000 and also signed Keira Walsh from Barcelona on deadline day.

Efforts are continuing to free a whale which has become entangled in a rope at a fish farm off the Isle of Skye. A member of the public spotted the humpback in difficulty and contacted British Divers ...