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

A man in his 20s has ben taken to hospital after a shooting in Leyton. Officers were called to reports of gunshots heard in St George's Road at around 6.10pm yesterday (November 27). London Ambulance ...

The City of London Corporation has agreed to stop running the historic Billingsgate Market in Poplar and pay compensation to traders.

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 ...

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

Jesse Lloyd-Smith, 20, was shot in East Surrey Grove shortly before 5pm on July 10 and died the following day in hospital. His relatives urged those who have been “sitting on the truth” to finally ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Donald Trump has dined with Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg at the US President-elect’s Mar-a-Lago club in Florida. The meeting brings together the Facebook founder and the former president who ...

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 ...