Tory leadership hopeful Robert Jenrick has asked the BBC to host a head-to-head televised debate between him and his opponent Kemi Badenoch. He has written to BBC director-general Tim Davie asking for ...

Two people have been rescued after a boat capsized near Southend on Sunday. Emergency services were called out to Shoebury Common beach following reports that a tender had capsized and two people were ...

Police have launched an appeal to find a man who is missing from Chelmsford with four children. Essex Police said Jethro Cox, 38, is missing from his home and they believe he is with four children ...

A drone strike hit central Israel on Sunday, wounding more than 60 people, some of them critically, rescue services said, in ...

DIY SOS star Nick Knowles has become the latest celebrity to be eliminated from Strictly Come Dancing's 20th anniversary series.

The family of Alex Salmond have paid tribute to a “formidable politician” and “a devoted and loving husband”, following his death aged 69. Mr Salmond, who led the SNP before later founding the Alba ...

Strictly dancer Katya Jones has dismissed suggestions she was made to feel “uncomfortable or offended” as “complete nonsense” after a moment during Saturday night’s show saw her move Wynne Evans’ hand ...

A welfare team has checked in on Strictly pairing Katya Jones and Wynne Evans after she was seen on camera pushing the opera singer’s hand from her midriff and no further action is planned, the PA ...