Five million vapes are thrown away each week, equivalent to eight every second, according to environment minister Mary Creagh.

Oxford City Council will decide whether to give a Christmas market a premise license, despite concerns about noise pollution, traffic and ...

Arsenal defender Ben White is set for a spell on the sidelines having undergone minor surgery on a knee issue, according to reports. White, 27, has seen his workload managed during the opening part of ...

Access improvements to Banbury Railway Station have now started with part of the Station Approach Road to be closed from tomorrow (November 14). Work to connect Tramway Road to Station Approach Road ...

Oxfordshire police are warning residents after an increase in thefts in a number of towns and villages. Police reported that a number of power tools and alcohol were stolen in the Hungerford area ...

Dean Dempster, a response officer for Greater Manchester Police, assaulted the child while on duty in Oldham in December last year.

Henry Slade insists England will resist the temptation to strip back their gameplan in a quest to rescue their autumn by toppling South Africa at Allianz Stadium on Saturday. England’s attack has ...

Sebastian Coe has promised he will introduce a “clear-cut” policy to protect female sport if he is elected president of the International Olympic Committee. Coe says he has been “in training for most ...

Eight players withdrew from Carsley’s initial 26-man squad for this Nations League double-header. Declan Rice, Phil Foden, Bukayo Saka and Cole Palmer pulled out of the initial selection on Monday, as ...

Irish mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor has said that a woman who has accused him of raping her in a Dublin hotel is “full of lies”. Mr McGregor, who is facing an accusation in the civil ...

A man beat his partner and may have slept while she died on the floor next to his bed, a court has heard. Raj Sidpara, 50, admitted the manslaughter of his partner Tarnjeet Riaz, also known as ...

Rapper Nelly will not face drug charges following his arrest this summer at a St Louis-area casino, a prosecutor said. “We don’t believe the facts in this case warrant the issuing of charges,” St ...