15 year old Northumberland murder victim named as 16 year old boy charged with...

A 15-year-old girl who died following an alleged assault in Hexham has now been named – as a teenage boy is charged with murder. The...

16 year old arrested on suspicion of murder after 15 year old girl stabbed...

A 16-year-old boy was arrested on suspicion of assault, and later on suspicion of murder after a 15 year old girl was killed in...

Customers told not to turn up at airport as Flybe collapses for a second...

Regional carrier Flybe has ceased trading and all scheduled flights have been cancelled People are being urged not to go to airports after all of...

City pay has risen more than three times faster than NHS key worker pay...

City pay including bonuses (pay in the financial services and insurance sector), has risen more than three times faster than nurses' pay since 2008,...

Funeral costs lower for bereaved families following CMA order

A review by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) of the funerals market has indicated that the introduction of transparency rules, part of its...

Report recommends that social workers be paid £2 per hour more than the minimum...

A report out this morning is recommending that Social care workers should have their minimum pay set at £2 above the adult minimum wage. This would...

Universal Credit system is costly and ineffective for employers, Manchester research reveals

The UK’s employment support system is costly to businesses as they wrestle with large volumes of irrelevant job applications, according to employers in a...

People to be paid to use less electricity tonight

The National Grid has said it would pay customers to use less power on Monday evening and that it had asked for three coal-powered...

Government promises crackdown on increasing installation of pre payment energy meters

The Government has pledged to crack down on the mistreatment of energy users by suppliers, following reports showing some are doing nowhere near enough...

Two dead in eight vehicle crash on M40 in Buckinghamshire

Two people have been killed in an eight vehicles pile up on the M40 this morning between J5 and J4 southbound. A woman in...