The government said medical data of 500,000 people was affected but no personally identifiable information had been made available.

Across the UK, shopfronts are being exploited by criminal gangs pushing illegal drugs, experts say.

The BBC's Lyse Doucet reports from Iran, where the buzz of busy shopping streets masks deep uncertainty over the country's future.

The three-year agreement will see at least 50 riot-trained police officers drafted in to tackle violence and “hostile crowds”.

The arrest was made as part of a wider investigation into leadership at the Countess of Chester Hospital.

Evie and her mother were enjoying a day trip to south Wales when they came across the amphibian.

Three children were among those killed in a strike near a mosque in the town of Beit Lahia on Wednesday evening.

The portrait was taken by photographer Matt Porteous in Cornwall earlier this month.

Are golf courses the right places to build housing, or are they simply a soft target?

BBC UK editor Ed Thomas confronts a shopkeeper secretly filmed selling cannabis and cocaine to one of our researchers.