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Half of secondary pupils have avoided school in the past year because of anxiety, a poll has found..

Shoppers increasingly turned to “alternative” ways to pay in 2024, such as buy now pay later methods, according to the British Retail Consortium (BRC)..

The UK’s economy contracted for the second month running in October, defying expectations for a rebound as car manufacturing only made a slight recovery from the Jaguar Land Recovery cyber attack.

A £20,000 reward is being offered to help find the killer of a grandmother found dead in her home..

Three men have been jailed for life after an an innocent grandfather was shot through his living room window in a murder which was caught on a doorbell camera..

A city council says it is “deeply saddened” by the theft of more than 600 artefacts from its museum collection..

The number of people in hospital in England with flu remains at a record level for this time of year and has jumped by 55% in a week, NHS figures show..

Liverpool is the most generous city in the UK this year, according to figures from a fundraising platform..