British author Samantha Harvey has become the first woman since 2019 to win the Booker Prize. Her book Orbital, about astronauts looking down at Earth, was named as the winner of the £50,000 prize and ...

Samantha Harvey, the 2024 winner of the Booker Prize, is a former museum worker turned author. Before snapping up the £50,000 literary prize on Tuesday for her novel Orbital, she said that she would ...

Samantha Harvey has become the first woman since 2019 to win the Booker Prize with Orbital, in a record year for female writers. According to the Booker Prize, 36 men and 19 women have won it since ...

Gillingham beat League 1 Stevenage on penalties after a drawn game in the EFL Trophy but their efforts weren’t enough. Josh Andrews scored his first goal of the season to put Gillingham ahead in the ...

Plans to build a permanent community diagnostic centre (CDC) to help cut NHS waiting times have been given the green light. The new medical centre at Livingstone Community Hospital, in Dartford, will ...

MPs have defeated an attempt to remove Church of England bishops from the House of Lords, amid suggestions they should focus on ecclesiastical matters rather than trying to “run our country”.

Fresh calls have been made to urge the government to look at all possibilities of extending the Elizabeth Line into Kent.

Rail services are severely disrupted this evening following reports a person has been hit by a train on a busy main line.

The scheme gives 16 to 17-year-olds volunteering opportunities to help them to gain skills and build their confidence.

NatWest has blocked messaging platforms including WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and Skype on corporate devices amid the wider industry clampdown on staff misusing apps at work. The UK banking group ...

Revenge porn should be made a statutory civil offence to allow victims redress without having to go through a “retraumatising” criminal trial, MPs have been told. In a Westminster Hall debate on ...

The Liverpool-born singer-songwriter was made an MBE by the Prince of Wales on Tuesday for her services to the music industry.