Nearly 300,000 “attempts to access websites categorised as pornography” were made from computers within the British Parliament in the last year, official records show.

The New York Times’ website went down for several hours in its second major disruption this month, with a hacker group calling itself the “Syrian Electronic Army” claiming responsibility.

It is only a matter of time before a child witness commits suicide if nothing is done to address the adversarial culture in courtrooms, the head of a leading British charity has warned.

Labour power couple Ed Balls and Yvette Cooper have not been on a date for a decade, the shadow chancellor has revealed.

One of Britain’s busiest shopping streets was closed today as a man wearing gas canisters stormed into an office and threatened to blow himself up, it was reported.