Drought has been declared in the West and East Midlands as England struggles with its driest start to the year since 1976. It ...

Weather maps show that the UK will be hit with another heat blast in just two weeks, with various parts of England reaching ...

Currently, three areas of the UK – Cumbria and Lancashire, Yorkshire and Greater Manchester, Merseyside and Cheshire – are in ...

Almost eight million people will be subject to a hosepipe ban by next week after Thames Water announced the third hosepipe ...

England’s best and worst performing hospitals for waiting times, cancer treatment and other key targets have been named on a ...

But with a third scorching heatwave on the horizon, over a million people in Kent and Sussex now also face a hosepipe ban.

The percentage of conceptions leading to legal abortions in England and Wales has reached a record high, according to ...

There are more than 200 local authority areas in the country where heatwave conditions have started today, as scorching ...

England has experienced the hottest spring from March to May on record, and the driest in over a century, followed by the hottest June on record, with two searing heatwaves hitting parts of the ...

Paramedics raced to the Lancashire cemetery where the boy was treated after a gravestone fell onto him, with officials later ...

Daresbury is a place full of stories, from the familiar to the bizarre. Perhaps appropriately, it was the birthplace of Charles Lutwidge ...

The county is the latest in the north of England to see its status moved to ‘drought’ after the driest spring for 132 years.