The UK is on course for its hottest summer on record, with only average conditions needed for the rest of August to beat the record set just last year, the Met Office said..

A man who attended hospital with a gunshot wound has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a 25-year-old was shot dead near a pub..

Firefighters are beginning a third day of tackling a fire in the New Forest which they say they are “managing to contain” after working “tirelessly” through the night..

Pc Andrew Harper’s killers will not walk free early after Prime Minister Andy Burnham urged the Justice Secretary to “work through further options” to stop their release, a minister has suggested..

Two public fountains in Hastings, East Sussex, have been temporarily switched off after Sussex was declared to be in drought.

A managing director has said the closure of a seafront venue is a "stark reminder" of "crisis" facing LGBTQ+ nightlife in the city

The leader of Brighton and Hove City Council has spoken out following the announced closure of R-Bar and Charles Street Tap.

Barbara Stevens, 90, died after being struck repeatedly on the head with a hammer at the home she shared with Robert Page, 75, in College Road, Bexhill.