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A doll’s house which inspired the stories of children’s author Beatrix Potter is going back on display after 300 hours of conservation work. Seventy-three miniature items – including furniture, plates of food and even a small chandelier – were repaired and cleaned by teams of conservators at the National Trust ahead of the house becoming the centrepiece of a new exhibition at Hill Top, the author’s farm near Hawkshead, Cumbria. […]

David Lammy is set to meet G7 allies on Friday as the West reels from Donald Trump’s telephone conversation with Vladimir Putin. The Foreign Secretary will travel to the Munich Security Conference, where he is expected to attend a G7 meeting and a dinner with his counterparts from the US, France, Italy and Germany – the so-called “Quint”. But while he may have expected to discuss the Middle East and […]

More than half of the public intend to spend money on a spouse or partner this Valentine’s Day, with men marginally more likely than women to mark the occasion, a survey suggests. Just over a quarter of people (27%) intend to take their partner out for a Valentine’s Day meal, 19% will send a card, 10% will buy flowers or drinks out and 4% are planning a trip away, the […]

Kemi Badenoch has launched a formal bid to keep local elections scheduled for this May, as her shadow business secretary warned cancelling them was entirely wrong..

A major opportunity to boost inclusive economic growth will be lost unless a looming £8 billion funding gap in council finances is not addressed in the forthcoming spending review, the Government has been warned..

The Government will “wait and see” whether tariffs announced by Donald Trump on Friday “actually come to pass”, a senior minister has said. The US president announced what he called “reciprocal tariffs” on all other countries on Friday evening, claiming it was “fair to all”. But immediately following his announcement, it was unclear how this would apply to the UK, especially as Mr Trump suggested his policy regarded VAT as […]

London Museum has announced it has acquired Banksy’s piranhas artwork for display in its new location. The artwork, which saw fish painted on a police sentry box, made headlines last summer when it appeared as part of the street artist’s animal-themed collection in the capital, which concluded with a gorilla appearing to lift up a shutter on the entrance to London Zoo. London Museum will display the work at its […]

Strikes planned by Avanti West Coast train managers over the next three Sundays have been suspended to allow negotiations in a long-running dispute over rest day working. Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) have already taken industrial action and were due to walk out again on the coming Sundays. RMT general secretary Mick Lynch said: “This breakthrough has been achieved through the strength and determination of our […]

A 70-year-old man has been found guilty of the murder of 86-year-old widow Una Crown in 2013 after DNA which matched his profile was found on her nail clippings. Retired postmistress Mrs Crown was found with her throat cut, stab wounds to her chest and her clothing set on fire in her bungalow in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, on January 13 2013. Police did not initially consider her death suspicious and there […]