Raymond van Barneveld marked his World Championship return with an impressive 3-0 first-round win over Laurence Ilagen.

Sporting events in Wales will be played behind closed doors from Boxing Day in a bid to combat the spread of the Omicron variant.

Pep Guardiola has warned his Manchester City players about off-field behaviour at Christmas after Jack Grealish and Phil Foden were reportedly pictured in a nightclub and then dropped for the clash at Newcastle.

Manchester is getting a "green lung" in the shape of its first city park in 100 years.

Sat in a circle at a community hall in south London, a group of people from ethnic minority backgrounds are gathered to talk about their mental health.

In the third and final article in our series about levelling up we take a look at the relationship between areas that won funding and those that experienced the largest fall in council budgets since 2010.

Giant millipedes as long as a car and weighing 50kg once hunted across northern England, experts have said, following the discovery of a 326 million-year-old fossil.

A primary school teacher has been sacked in connection with a video of a woman punching and kicking a horse that was shared online.

Omicron is now the dominant form of coronavirus in the US and made up 73% of new cases last week, according to federal health officials.

The boss of the UK's largest trade union has ordered a QC-led inquiry into the spending of almost £100m of members' money on a controversial hotel and conference centre.