Nurture is more influential than nature when it comes to number of major diseases and premature death, according to a new study.Environmental factors are almost 10 times more important than genetic ...

Folk singer Bill Fay has died aged 81, his record label has announced with “great sadness”. He's known for songs such as The Healing Day and Thank You Lord. Just a month before his death, Fay began ...

POLICE searching for a missing university student have found a body in the River Thames. Benedict, 20 – known as Ben – was ...

The central London neighbourhood of Oxford Street, Mayfair and Soho has become the UK's burglary hotspot, as residents complain that things are getting worse.

Aberdeen, Durham and Hartlepool are the three cheapest urban hotspots to buy a home either solo or as a couple, data shows. At the other end of the spectrum, single buyers in London would need to ...

The education secretary has defended Donald Trump’s decision to phone Vladimir Putin but said ‘there can be no settlement’ ...

Britain’s Got Talent auditions took place in Blackpool, Lancashire as well as London and Manchester this year.

Follow live coverage as Watford face Luton Town in the Championship today. An increasingly competitive second tier in English ...

Tony Abbott says 'no country on earth is more capable of standing on its own two feet' but the UK has been 'badly let down by its leadership' ...

Only Fools & Horses The Musical - written by Paul Whitehouse and Jim Sullivan - arrives next month at New Theatre Oxford ...

In the pursuit of competent human capital, nine of the 19 northern states of the federation have sent 1,095 students on ...

The story of the time The Royal Family asked The Goons to represent them in a game of tiddledywinks against the University of ...