An incredible new £700million tram line will greatly boost a famous UK city. The East Birmingham to Solihull Metro Extension was first looked into 20 years as a nine-mile route from the airport National Exhibition Centre but has since been greatly extended.
British Judges have been told to consider handing out more lenient sentences for convicted offenders from “deprived” or “difficult” backgrounds. The Sentencing Council, the official body charged with setting guidelines for judges and magistrates, has identified “mitigating” factors for the first time.
NATO countries not spending two per cent of GDP on defence are playing Russian roulette with the West’s future, Grant Shapps has warned. Britain’s Defence Secretary repeated his warning that allies must accept the West is now in a pre-war world. Only
An Israeli woman who was abducted by Hamas says she was more afraid of being “paraded” around Gaza than dying. Amit Soussana, 40, was kidnapped from the Kibbutz Kfar Aza in Israel on October 7. She says she was forced to perform
Network Rail has issued a stark warning that it will cost billions of pounds to ensure Britain’s railways aren’t ravaged by extreme weather caused by climate change. The state-owned company which manages the UK’s rail infrastructure, said it will plough £2.8 billion
Around 1,500 passengers on a luxury cruise found themselves stranded on board their vessel in the port of Barcelona on Tuesday, when Spanish border officials prevented 69 Bolivian nationals from entering the country. They were denied entry over allegedly travelling on false
Amador Beach in El Campello, on Spain’s Costa Blanca, has been closed after wet wipes clogged the sewage system, causing a sewage spill. The closure is expected to last until at least Friday. Improper disposal of wet wipes led to the blockage
Ukraine has suggested it will destroy the Crimean Bridge in an “inevitable” attack on the highly-coveted Russian asset. The Defence Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine (GUR), implied it was plotting an attack which would be its third on the
Rishi Sunak vows he will take Britain out of the European human rights court if it continues to block deportation flights to Rwanda. Coming out fighting after a turbulent few weeks of dire polls and party unrest, the Prime Minister insisted everything
The Met Office has confirmed which parts of the UK could see the first glimpse of summer this weekend as temperatures are set to soar to 20C. With Britain officially entering Summer Time as clocks jump forward an hour, many have been
WhatsApp appeared to be down leaving users furious as they attempted to use the messaging service. There were 22,564 reports of WhatsApp outages at 7.24pm (GMT) on Wednesday (April 3) from a baseline of just four, according to DownDetector. Seventy percent of