THE RNLI has submitted a planning application to repair the walkway of Weston-super-Mare’s Birnbeck Pier to restore access to the island.

With about 30,000 suspected mpox cases and 859 deaths, it accounts for more than 80 of cases and 99 of deaths reported in Africa this year.

Sophie was announced as the new patron for Girlguiding, the country’s largest organisation dedicated solely to girls, earlier this week.

Ukrainian forces have said they shot down a Russian fighter plane on Saturday while Russia claimed it made gains in Ukraine’s east.

Arrests have been made as tens of thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters gathered in central London ahead of the anniversary of the October 7 attacks in Israel.

Israel has expanded its bombardment in Lebanon, hitting Beirut’s southern suburbs with 12 air strikes and striking a Palestinian refugee camp deep in northern Lebanon for the first time.

An unconfirmed number of people have died, including a child who was “trampled to death”, following two small boat incidents off France. The French interior minister Bruno Retailleau posted on X that ...

Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris is heading to North Carolina as the state recovers from Hurricane Helene. Ms ...

An Israeli strike on a refugee camp in north Lebanon has killed Hamas official Saeed Atallah Ali and his family, the militant group has said. The early morning strike came a day after another Israeli ...

A memorial service is to be held this weekend to mark the 50th anniversary of the Guildford pub bombings. The Holy Trinity Church in the Surrey city is hosting the service to remember the four ...

But all around the patrons, staring down from lampposts and shop windows, are pictures of hostages held in Gaza, stark ...