The Princess Royal has brought her charities together at a special Buckingham Palace forum after deciding it was the only way she wished to mark her forthcoming 75th birthday.

Peers have asked ministers to tweak a 105-year-old law to let young people work on heritage railways, before there is “no-one” with a memory of steam trains on main lines.

Search teams wound down the operation in Atalaia, near Lagos, Portugal, on Thursday, after three days of scouring scrubland and abandoned structures.

The Prime Minister hailed Abdullah’s ‘leadership in the region’ and described his work on the conflict as ‘really, really important’.

The chairman of Reform UK has quit, saying working to get the party elected was no longer “a good use of my time”. Zia Yusuf’s decision follows a row in which he described a question to the Prime ...

Liberal Democrat John Milne said there were ‘alarming parallels’ with the systemic failure which led to the west London tower block fire.

Current schemes, which are mainly with countries with smaller populations, might not accurately predict how future schemes will perform.