Tory leadership hopeful Robert Jenrick has asked the BBC to host a head-to-head televised debate between him and his opponent Kemi Badenoch. He has written to BBC director-general Tim Davie asking for ...

Two RNLI lifeboats, the coastguard helicopter and the coastguard rescue teams from Southend and Canvey Island went to the scene. The coastguard said one of the people was able to make it to shore on ...

Police have launched an appeal to find a man who is missing from Chelmsford with four children. Essex Police said Jethro Cox, 38, is missing from his home and they believe he is with four children ...

A drone strike hit central Israel on Sunday, wounding more than 60 people, some of them critically, rescue services said, in ...

North Korea said its front-line army units are ready to launch strikes on South Korea, ramping up pressure on its rival that it said flew drones and dropped leaflets over its capital Pyongyang. South ...

DIY SOS star Nick Knowles has become the latest celebrity to be eliminated from Strictly Come Dancing's 20th anniversary series.

Beth Lumsden bagged a brace to lead Newcastle United to a well-earned 2-1 victory over Sunderland in the Tyne-Wear Derby.