John Ashton, the veteran character actor who memorably played the gruff but lovable police detective John Taggart in the Beverly Hills Cop films, has died. He was 76.

Emergency services were called at around 2.50pm on Saturday to the property near the A66, north of Warcop, Cumbria.

Erik ten Hag insisted he was not worried about his Manchester United future despite a “very poor” performance in a 3-0 home defeat to Tottenham.

Shadow cabinet minister Mel Stride said perceptions about competence and trust contributed to the party’s election defeat in July.

Manchester United captain Bruno Fernandes believes the challenge on James Maddison which got him sent off in Sunday’s 3-0 home defeat by Tottenham was “never a red card”. A month that started with a ...

Police are searching for a man in connection with a fatal six-vehicle motorway collision. Warwickshire Police believe Akashdeep Singh, 23, may have information about the incident on the M40 which ...

President Joe Biden said on Sunday he would speak with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and believes that an all-out war in the Middle East must be avoided. “It has to be,” Mr Biden told ...

Harry Brook looked on the bright side despite the forecast rain arriving too late to spare England from defeat in their ODI series decider against Australia in Bristol.

Former prime minister Rishi Sunak has urged the Conservative Party to cease its infighting, in his final address to Tory members before he stands down as leader.

An eight-year-old mountaineer from Cumbria is taking on an “emotional” expedition up the three highest peaks in north Africa ...

The Israeli Prime Minister said targeting Hassan Nasrallah was ‘an essential condition to achieving the goals we set’.

New Scottish Conservatives leader Russell Findlay does not want to spend his career “only talking about the union”, he told activists and delegates in Birmingham.