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David and Hannah Madden are not allowed to build a home for their young children because of water pollution from 4 supermarket chickens. "It's bonkers," he say...

Dominic Raab has pledged to swiftly change the law to stop the serial killer Levi Bellfield getting married in prison. The justice secretary says he wants to pr...

The sacked president of the National Union of Students is taking legal action against her dismissal, claiming discrimination.Shaima Dallali said she learnt via social media that she had lost her job and had been subjected to threats and personal abuse.She...

Ahmad clearly remembers the mingled excitement and terror he felt when the Americans began to bomb his city. "We were just kids but we were excited that they we...

Wild Isles is Sir David Attenborough's belated look at his own backyard. It feels like an accolade for Britain itself that he should consider our flora and fauna worthy of the Attenborough treatment...

Tom Benn is the winner of our Young Writer of the Year award — he talks about being a 'Mancunian mongrel', overcoming rejection by two dozen publishers, and why we need more authentic working-class stories...

The best of the new TV series and shows that are available to stream in the UK — chosen by the Times TV team...

One of our greatest 20th-century novelists was born 100 years ago. It's time we appreciated her extraordinary work, says Susie Goldsbrough...

With loudhailers, football rattles, a singer shouting into the piano and a po-faced newsreader reciting an encyclopaedia entry, the London Sinfonietta's first c...

Fifa's World Cup sponsors have been left infuriated by the way Salt Bae, the celebrity chef, was able to access invaluable free publicity by going on to the pit...

It's World Poetry Day — nearly. To celebrate, Don Paterson — twice winner of the TS Eliot prize — picks the 11 collections from the past 100 years that everyone should read...

Ash Regan, one of the candidates to succeed Nicola Sturgeon for the SNP leadership, has raised concerns with Scotland's most senior civil servant about a leading aide to the first minister advising a rival's campaign....

'Why would we? We love it here." The question had been asked of Andy Farrell this week whether, any time soon, he might contemplate returning home with his fami...

The party has already started in Dublin. Ireland's capital was a riot of colour and music on Friday lunchtime as half a million people thronged into the city fo...

Senior judges have ordered a new inquest into the death of a woman who killed herself six years ago after her benefits were cut.The Court of Appeal overturned a...

A former Labour peer who was found guilty of historical sex offences last year has had his sentence reduced by more than half.Three appeal judges, includi...

The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin for war crimes, alleging that the Russian president was involved in abductions of children from Ukraine.The court said in a statement that Putin "is allegedly responsible...

Graham Potter has revealed that he was surprised to see Mason Mount named in the England squad for this month's Euro 2024 qualifiers against Italy and Ukraine.M...

The claim that Britain helped to cover up the American destruction of Flight MH370, the airliner that disappeared nine years ago with 239 people aboard, has ci...

The Metropolitan Police is braced for the most damning report since the murder of Stephen Lawrence after an independent review found failings in every departmen...

By describing the Ukraine war as not in America's "vital national interest", Ron DeSantis echoed growing Republican reluctance for international action 70 years...

On the eve of Facebook's stock market debut, Mark Zuckerberg sought to explain the inner workings of his rapidly-growing empire to Wall Street. "We have a saying," he told prospective investors: move fast, and break things. "The idea is th...

Belgium hopes to turn the page on the darkest chapter of its history this year with the return of human remains and cultural objects that were plundered during...

Paul Heckingbottom loves the FA Cup, not least because of his remarkable feat one season of losing in the second round yet scoring in the third. Now the manage...

President Xi will visit Moscow on his first foreign trip since he was reappointed leader of China in his latest show of support for Russia during its war on Uk...

What can you do when your child doesn't fit the academic mould, asks Lucy Cavendish, mother of Ottoline...

In America, where they tend to get overexcited, veneration of Taylor Swift has just reached preposterous levels. The mayor of Glendale in Arizona announced...

Key momentsPressure on junior doctors after NHS strikes breakthrough Head of NHS providers says 'urgent movement on talks' neededBoris Johnson reselected as Tor...

The adage that "mother knows best" rings true for children but not until they turn 26, according to a survey.The poll of 2,000 Britons by the Post Office for Mother's Day found that almost half thought that their mothers' advice made good ...

A surfer in Sydney has broken the world record for the longest continuous session by spending more than 40 hours in the water and riding more than 700 waves.Bla...

In a hospital bed at Bagram air base in Afghanistan, the surgeon who had amputated his legs promised Hari Budha Magar that he would walk again. His patient did...

Many people believe that pensions and insurance are "the most boring thing on the planet", concedes Tracy Blackwell. Given that she runs a business called Pension Insurance Corporation, it is perhaps unsurprising that Blackwell reckons they couldn...

Madness, madness, they call it madness. That's how the song goes. Then again, it was sung by Madness, so it did at least make sense.Unlike what happened at Crys...

Hours after Tunisia's president ordered the expulsion of all illegal migrants, claiming they were out to destroy his country, knife-wielding mobs gathered on th...

The UK is still on course to be the only big wealthy economy to register negative growth this year, despite an upturn in growth prospects, according to new inte...

Oxfam has instructed staff to drop the words "mother" and "father" from their vocabulary and replace them with "parent" when describing family roles.The charit...

Top-flight outfield footballers in Sweden were significantly more likely to develop dementia than the general public over the last century, a large study has s...

The government looks ready to pull the plug on all 38 business-led Local Enterprise Partnerships across England next year only 12 months after saying that many...

Patrick Vieira has been sacked by Crystal Palace after only one win in 14 Premier League matches left the club's hierarchy fearing relegation.The Frenchman's si...

After two years of no progress, financial services companies have increased the proportion of women holding senior management positions to 35 per cent, a review...

Three million people have experienced delays in getting driving licences because of antiquated systems, according to a report by MPs....

Unheard Opera National ArchivesKew, southwest LondonWhat posterity decides is important about any past era, and what actually mattered to ordinary people at the time, are two different things. Not least in music. A fascinating discovery by the National Ar...

Thomas Turgoose is in demand as Grimsby Town's most famous supporter in the week that the club travel to Brighton in the quarter-final of the FA Cup. We meet in...

Lisa Grainger meets three experts changing the face of members' clubs, villa rentals and polar exploration...

Like many banks across the globe it has been a torrid week for OSB Group, but the buy-to-let lender's fortunes improved with forecast-beating annual profits. Th...

From video doorbells to smoke alarms, our pick of smartphone-compatible devices will keep your property safe...

TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER JAMES GLOSSOP A curator poses with limestone lintel of Ramses III at the Discover Ancient Egypt exhibition at the Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, e...

This week Jeremy Hunt told us that if we got off the sofa or the golf course Britain could become a superpower. I simplify, but only slightly. The big theme of...

Sir, John Ralfe and Baroness Altmann (letters, Mar 16) suggest some pros and cons on the abolition of the pension lifetime allowance (LTA), and it will be all...

He was adored for creating the sitcoms Father Ted and The IT Crowd. Then Graham Linehan's tweets about gender whipped up a storm of controversy...