An amber warning for heavy rain has been put in place across parts of North-West England until 9am on New Year’s Day.

United’s 2-0 home defeat saw them suffer five league losses in the same calendar month for the first time since September 1962.

One disappointed tourist said they tried to get tickets back to London because the fireworks were still happening there.

Pupils, parents and teachers face “paying the price” of a new tax on private school fees, the Conservatives have warned after the Chancellor welcomed an end to the “VAT break”.

JACK Bridge wants 2024 to be remembered as a springboard for Southend United success. Bridge was the only Shrimpers star to play in all 48 matches Kevin Maher’s side played during the calendar year.

Veteran radio DJ Johnnie Walker’s wife Tiggy has raised a glass to her “most devoted, loving husband” on New Year’s Eve after he died aged 79. In a post on X, she shared a picture of a bottle and ...

The UK faces a “year of rebuilding” while also “rediscovering the great nation that we are” in 2025, according to Sir Keir Starmer. The Prime Minister used his first new year’s message since entering ...

Chancellor Olaf Scholz has called on Germany’s 84 million residents to stick together despite the many global crises and wars ...

Chinese hackers have remotely accessed several US Treasury Department workstations and unclassified documents after ...

HUNDREDS of excited families flocked to Southend seafront to view the city’s first-ever New Year’s Eve fireworks ...

Shadow home secretary Chris Philp accused Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer of ‘rewarding the failing Sadiq Khan’.

The Southend Athletic Club has celebrated the 70th anniversary of its iconic Pier Race this year, a unique handicap event where participants aim to finish together. Originally founded by club member ...