Home Secretary Priti Patel has come under fire after suggesting eight million “economically inactive” Britons can fill vacancies following a post-Brexit clampdown on immigration.

More wet weather is on the way as parts of the UK could see a month’s worth of rainfall in the next 24 hours.

Bells will ring at Westminster Abbey for Prince Andrew’s 60th birthday tomorrow, after councils were advised that they are no longer have to fly flags to mark the occasion.

The UK’s post-Brexit immigration system will deny visas to low-skilled workers, the government has said.

Flooding is “potentially imminent” in some parts of the UK as people are being warned they are “not out of the woods yet” in the aftermath of Storm Dennis.

A demand for the return of “unlawfully removed cultural objects” has been included in the EU’s negotiating mandate for trade talks with the UK – prompting claims Britain will be held to ransom over the Elgin Marbles.

A British couple who have been quarantined on a cruise ship in Japan have revealed they have been diagnosed with COVID-19.

Love Island has paid tribute to Caroline Flack in the first show since its former presenter’s death.

Hundreds of people have been seriously injured at Amazon’s UK warehouses over the last three years, new figures suggest.

A woman who was swept away by Storm Dennis has been found dead, police have said, as a river reaches its highest level in 200 years.