Sri Lankans began voting on Saturday in a presidential election that will determine the course of the country’s recovery from ...

Men brandishing machetes stormed a home in Reading in a terrifying ordeal for the victims. The two offenders, who were wearing dark clothes and balaclavas, broke into a property on Laud Close in the ...

Relatives of Alistair Wilson branded police “incompetent” and say they have lost trust in their ability to secure justice. The 30-year-old father of two was shot in Nairn in the Highlands in November ...

An increase in the number of puppies who came into RSPCA care last year has raised fears that people may still be impulse buying young dogs ...

Great Paxton Scarecrow Festival returned on September 14 and has seen locals recreate musicians including Taylor Swift – 22 hat included – and Oasis in straw form and given the names T’Haylor Swift ...

Emma Raducanu’s injury problems struck again as she retired from her Korea Open quarter-final against top seed Daria Kasatkina. The 21-year-old Briton had just lost the first set 6-1 when she withdrew ...

Greg Bateman and Kai Horstmann will be climbing Snowdon, Scafell Pike and Ben Nevis and cycling the 675 kilometres between them.

A Reading thug who attacked a police officer during a stop and search has been jailed for four years. Lorenza Clarke was stopped in June and officers found he had more than £1,000 on him as well as ...

This week’s planning roundup for Reading features solar panelled parking near Madejski Stadium and new flats above a pub.

Nigel Farage and his deputy Richard Tice sought to capitalise on their links with the Trump campaign at Reform UK’s party ...

The European Union has pledged to lend Ukraine up to 35 billion euro (£29 billion) as part of a loan package organised by the ...

South Carolina put inmate Freddie Owens to death on Friday as the state restarted executions after an unintended 13-year pause because prison officials could not get the drugs needed for lethal ...