Singer Katy Perry could be heard yelling “oh my god” as she was blasted into space as part of the six-woman crew on Jeff Bezos’s New Shepard NS-31 embarking on the Blue Origin programme.

In April 2016 – when David Cameron was prime minister and Mr Johnson was still mayor of London – Tata Steel agreed a deal to sell its Long Products Europe business to Greybull Capital. The Long ...

British actors Nick Frost and Paapa Essiedu and US star John Lithgow have been officially confirmed as among the cast for the upcoming Harry Potter TV series.

The body of 53-year-old David Howard was recovered from underneath debris following the blast at a house in Worksop on Friday.

The 55-year-old, who fronted primetime show The Repair Shop, was due to stand trial at Worcester Crown Court next month.

A judge has apologised after a solicitor who refused to comply with security checks had to be restrained by court staff when she let them into the building through an “alternative entrance”.

Douglas Alexander demanded that interlocutors explain why Wera Hobhouse was blocked from entering the Chinese region last week.