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Editorial: MPs are right to abolish hereditary seats in the upper house. However, Britain needs a representative second chamber fit for modern democracy

Sometime this autumn, the UK government is expected to publish its plan to “get Britain working again”.

Some of Britain's most notorious cases have been tried at London's Old Bailey, including those attracting the death penalty until the punishment was abolished in the 1960s.

Britain’s 500 lottery fundraisers have new gambling levy could exacerbate problems caused by the national insurance hike

Three decades ago, the first Eurostar train carrying paying passengers set off from London’s Waterloo station for Paris. While many of the headlines on November 14 1994 focused on the historic journey, others speculated about what the tunnel would mean for business and trade. Eurostar was “set to steal the…

The real-life story of Frankie Lucas, a fighter spurned by Britain’s boxing establishment, is wrenchingly sad but loses power in this telling

A well-preserved section of the 2,000-year-old road, known as Watling Street, was unearthed under Old Kent Road in Southwark

Been there, done that. Ray Mallock had won the Formula Atlantic championship in Britain in 1979 when the category was reintroduced to the country after a two-year hiatus. He’d then competed in the Aurora British Formula 1 Championship in 1980 at the wheel of Surtees – before a huge shunt…

Around £240 million is lost through fare evasion on Britain’s railways each year

The new Tory leader has rushed in to praise Trump and call for a US-UK trade deal that would devastate British farmers, says Starmer’s biographer, Tom Baldwin

Raducanu is set to team up with Katie Boulter when Great Britain face Germany in the Billie Jean King Cup finals on Friday