Whitefield School in Cricklewood will relaunch as Clarion School on July 11, marking 70 years of education with a community celebration in ...

The head of Myanmar’s military government has granted amnesty to around 4,900 prisoners to mark the country’s traditional new ...

Train passengers are being warned over disruption as Network Rail prepares to begin its Easter engineering work. The ...

When it comes to cruising, few places compare to Iceland and the countries of Scandinavia. This week we’re giving you a taste of what you ...

A student died after she got lost while diving at sea, when she got caught in an underwater vortex, an inquest has heard. Emily Sherwin, from Poole, went missing after a dive off Old Harry Rocks, near ...

MI5 files were not deliberately withheld from an investigation into the IRA agent known as Stakeknife, a review has found. The review was carried out following discovery of the material last year, ...

The Gender Recognition Act came into effect on April 4 2005, giving adults the right to legally change the sex that was recorded on their birth certificate. This is done by applying for a gender ...

Transgender people are “worried that people are coming after their right to exist” after the Supreme Court’s ruling, an MSP has said. The court handed down its decision on Wednesday in a long-running ...

Meanwhile, a Ukrainian delegation was in Paris for a round of bilateral and multilateral meetings with representatives of countries from the “coalition of the willing,” including France, Germany and ...

The Supreme Court said the terms woman and sex in the 2010 Equality Act ‘refer to a biological woman and biological sex’.

A minister has said she hopes the Supreme Court’s ruling on the legal definition of the term woman will draw a line under arguments over gender recognition, but accepted more “homework” needed to be ...

A Metropolitan Police officer has been dismissed without notice after a misconduct hearing concluded he had assaulted and threatened a woman he knew.