Official guidance warns staff it is 'oppressive' to use the wrong term. Some hospitals have threaten employees with disciplinary action and prosecution if they use the incorrect pronouns.

Those heading for the beach as the sun went down included a woman in a full-face veil, an elderly man and a toddler being carried upon an adult's shoulders.

The migrant crisis in the English Channel is likely to last at least another five years, according to a leaked government memo.

Pope Francis has called for more effective aid to migrants trying to reach European shores, decrying the death toll of those attempting the perilous journey from north Africa to Italy.

RAKIB EHSAN: Hussein Alinzi, 59, (pictured) was let off with a suspended prison sentence and a pathetic programme of 'rehabilitation activity' after he battered his 15-year-old daughter unconscious.

A 45-year-old man was charged Tuesday with threatening to blow up a plane during a flight from Australia to Malaysia that returned to Sydney.

John Burden writes to Robert Jenrick outlining worries over the plan for a Premier Inn in Gravesend.

Locals in Sandwich, Kent, say the local council has blown an unnecessary amount of cash on the new cobbles (pictured) first consulted on five years ago, at a time of rising foodbank use.

Poland will hold votes on the border wall with Belarus and the rejection of an EU scheme to force the country to take in illegal migrants.

There are concerns that the confectionary company could follow the same path as Bud Light