Brave outdoor swimmers wore Father Christmas hats as they kicked off their celebrations with a festive dip. Sea surface temperatures across the country were between 8C and 11C, the Met Office said.

Migrants have been crossing the English Channel in small boats on Christmas Day. Several boats were seen making the dangerous journey from France on Wednesday morning, with more expected to follow ...

Bishop of Dover Rose Hudson-Wilkin is giving the Christmas Day sermon from Canterbury Cathedral (Andrew Matthews/PA) Bishop of Dover Rose Hudson-Wilkin is giving the sermon at Canterbury Cathedral in ...

The King attended the royal family’s traditional Christmas Day church service, after a “brutal” year in which he and his daughter-in-law, the Princess of Wales, were both diagnosed with cancer.

The dataset was comprised of people who had trained for the London Marathon, New York Marathon or Dublin Marathon between 2014 and 2017.

A 39-year-old man was shot dead by armed police on Christmas Eve. West Mercia Police said officers were called by West Midlands Ambulance Service to an address in Redditch, Worcestershire, at around ...

Forty-two people are likely to have died in an Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash in the Kazakhstani city of Aktau, Kazakhstan’s emergency ministry has said. The ministry confirmed in a statement on the ...

An 88-year-old great-grandmother still receives a Christmas card every year from the German pen pal she has been writing to since she was 12. Sylvia Perkins, from Bermondsey, south-east London, ...

A temporary park has replaced an Oldham town centre play area while work for the new facilities begins as part of the regeneration of the ...

From Elf to Love Actually and It’s a Wonderful Life, vote for your favourite Christmas film of all time in our poll.

Harley Keenan looks after almost as many babies as he has clocked in years walking this earth. The sixteen-year-old nursery apprentice works in the baby room at the Buttercup Corner Day Nursery in ...

The drink driving limit is 35 micrograms of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath, in Scotland this limit is 22 micrograms ...