Plumes of smoke can be seen as a van fire has closed two lanes of the northbound M1 between junction 6a for the M25 and junction 8 for Hemel Hempstead. Herts Police and Herts Fire and Rescue have been ...

Resubmitted plans for a tower block in Bridle Path next to Watford Junction have taken 11 metres off its height.

US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin have said they will speak by phone on Thursday. It will be their sixth publicly disclosed chat since Mr Trump returned to the White House ...

Several people have been stabbed near a shopping centre in the southern Finnish city of Tampere, according to reports. Public broadcaster Yle reported that one person was detained without giving ...

Hearts have announced that captain Lawrence Shankland has re-signed with the club on a three-year contract.

Both Russell and his 18-year-old team-mate Kimi Antonelli do not have contracts in place for next season but, speaking ahead of his home Grand Prix, the British driver was adamant that he will be ...

Sir Martyn Oliver suggested that positive Ofsted ratings can raise local house prices by thousands of pounds because parents ‘value’ them.

Herts Police have commended an PC who negotiated with gunpoint blackmailers under intense pressure in Chorleywood.

India captain Shubman Gill helped himself to a record-breaking double century against England as the tourists ran up a merciless 564 for seven on day two of the second Rothesay Test.

Jurors have viewed the dramatic moment armed police swarmed a car park to arrest a neo-Nazi teenager as he allegedly picked up a gun for a terrorist attack. Alfie Coleman was detained outside a ...

Multiple champion jockey Oisin Murphy has been fined £70,000 and banned from driving for 20 months after admitting driving a car while drunk and crashing into a tree earlier this year.

Labour peer Lord David Lipsey has been found dead after swimming in the River Wye, police have said. Officers were called to the River Wye in Glasbury on Monday following concerns about the safety of ...