The tie-up, announced in May, will create a banking giant with millions of customers and about £89 billion worth of assets.

Just 42,500 applications have been approved since July, when the Government said almost 900,000 households were missing out on the benefit.

Coventry have announced Frank Lampard as their new head coach on a two-and-a-half-year contract. The 46-year-old will take charge of the Sky Blues for the first time this Saturday when his new side ...

Seven people have died in a landslide triggered by torrential rains in Indonesia’s Sumatra island, officials said, adding to ...

Net migration to the UK hit a higher than previously thought record of 906,000 in the year to June 2023, revised official estimates show. The measure for the difference between the number of people ...

BBC Radio 2 presenter Zoe Ball has revealed she suffers from temporomandibular joint (TMJ) disorder, in a post on Instagram.

The radio presenter announced earlier this month that she was stepping down from hosting Radio 2’s Breakfast show after six years.

A police officer who shocked a 95-yer-old nursing home resident with a Taser has been found guilty of manslaughter in an Australian court. A jury found Kristian James Samuel White guilty in the trial ...

The US conservative political commentor Candace Owens has been refused a visa to enter New Zealand for a speaking engagement because she had been banned from another country, immigration officials ...

Great Britain's Lionesses of 1996 wrote a new line in the history books when they became the first team to be inducted into the Rugby League Hall of Fame. Jane Banks and Michelle Land were also ...

Decisions about assisted dying should be made on a “secular basis”, a Government minister said ahead of MPs voting on the issue on Friday. Home Office minister Seema Malhotra acknowledged that “people ...

No-one was hurt in the incident, officials said. The minor crash occurred on Wednesday afternoon on the main road to the airport in Wellington, New Zealand’s capital, where the ...