The OECD said growth will slow to 1.2 next year, before edging up to 1.3 in 2027, with ‘substantial’ downside risks from fiscal tightening.

US special envoy Steve Witkoff is due to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, taking to the Kremlin an embryonic peace plan that Washington hopes can end the nearly four-year war in ...

Justice Secretary David Lammy stressed that juries remain “fundamental” as he is expected to set out plans to curb their use in a bid to tackle the backlog in the courts. Mr Lammy, who is also Deputy ...

Social media is “chipping away at attention spans” and promoting disrespectful behaviour, Ofsted’s chief inspector warned as he said schools should be a “sanctuary” for children away from their mobile ...

AN APPEAL has been issued in the search for the next-of-kin of a woman who has died. The Sefton, Knowsley and St Helens Coroner's Office is seeking relatives of Kelly Nixon, from Clock Face, who died ...

David Lammy, who is also Deputy Prime Minister, will lay out reforms to overhaul the system on Tuesday, amid reports jury trials could be limited to the most serious offences such ...

DEMANDS have been made in Parliament to close “a plain gap” in the law following the revenge killing of a former prison officer from Prescot.

The UK Government was “digging its own black hole” before the Budget, the SNP’s Westminster leader has said. Pressure continues on Chancellor Rachel Reeves over whether the Treasury misleadingly ...

The agency has set out efforts to monitor and secure the 150-metre long rubbish dump, saying safety of local residents is ‘our top priority’.

The Bank of England has cut its estimate for the level of cash reserves that banks must hold to protect against their collapse, in a significant loosening of post-financial crisis regulations. The new ...

The Bank of England said the UK banking system remains sturdy enough to support households and businesses even if economic conditions worsened.

IT is now more than 15 years since Saints played their last game at Knowsley Road – a last hurrah before the demolition men moved in.