Japan is paying tribute to more than three million war dead as the country marks its surrender 80 years ago, ending the Second World War, as concern grows about rapidly fading memories of the tragedy ...

Strictly Come Dancing’s 2025 series is to welcome the main show’s first contestant with Down’s syndrome, a Game of Thrones actor, reality TV stars and former footballers, all hoping to lift the ...

Three men in their twenties have been charged following a raid on an illegal farm in Failsworth in which £500k worth of cannabis was seized.

Four off-road bikes were seized and two arrests were made in Rochdale as part of a crackdown on anti-social behaviour in the area. A targeted Operation Hurricane took place involving neighbourhood ...

Epping Forest District Council is seeking an interim injunction stopping migrants from being accommodated at the Bell Hotel in Epping.

Row4MND is aiming to raise £57 million for research into motor neurone disease with a series of four epic rows over four years.

Flights at Manchester Airport were disrupted after the wings of two outbound easyJet planes clipped wings while on the ground. Airport officials briefly closed the runway while the aircraft were ...

Charles reflected on the horrors experienced by prisoners of war and the impact of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

The negotiations at the UN hub were supposed to be the last round and produce the first legally binding treaty on plastic pollution.

A 99-year-old Second World War veteran has said ahead of the 80th anniversary of Victory over Japan Day (VJ Day) that there are “not many of us left”. Dougie Shelley, who joined the Royal Navy aged 17 ...

Albert Lamond, 99, helped evacuate Allied prisoners of war from remote islands in the Pacific after Japan’s surrender.

The Prime Minister told veterans Volodymyr Zelensky’s war against Russia has the same values as the fight against the Axis powers.