Ms Takaichi won 237 votes – four more than a majority – compared to 149 won by Yoshikoko Noda, head of the largest opposition party.

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Temporary traffic lights due to gas main work on B3335 Highbridge Road both ways between Manor Road (Twyford) and B3354 (Colden Common). Until 9th January 2026.

The number of men in the UK living to a very old age is increasing faster than the rate for women, helping to push the elderly population to a new record high, figures show. Some 210,520 males were ...

Rishi Sunak has said he hopes to have “a weekly conversation with readers” of The Sunday Times as he joins the newspaper as a columnist. The former Conservative prime minister and serving MP for ...

Pizza Hut will also shut 11 delivery locations after the firm running its UK restaurants entered administration.

Fiona Goddard and Ellie-Ann Reynolds resigned from the inquiry’s victims and survivors liaison panel on Monday and criticised the Home Office.

Communities will welcome a focus on “actual hate crime”, the justice minister said after Britain’s biggest force indicated it would stop policing “toxic culture war debates”. Sarah Sackman described ...

Thames Water has agreed to delay a possible appeal over how much it can charge for customer bills while talks over a refinancing deal with potential buyers take place. The UK’s biggest water firm said ...

West Yorkshire Police said two more men from the prison had been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder.

Boris Johnson has denied there was a failure to plan for Covid school closures at the start of the pandemic, saying it would be “surprising” if there had been no planning.