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The areas with the highest percentage of smokers across the UK have been named. 

Tory leadership candidate Kemi Badenoch caused a backlash last weekend when she said maternity pay in the UK was "excessive" and called for greater "personal responsibility". 

Something strange has crept through the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham this week.  

Green Day have been banned from the playlists of two radio stations in Las Vegas after frontman Billie Joe Armstrong reportedly branded the city "the worst shithole in America". 

A luxury cruise ship stranded in Belfast for four months will return to port hours after it finally set sail. 

Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, is drawing up plans for a visit to China early next year that would include resuming a key financial services trade summit for the first time…

The founder of one of the City's most prominent independent law firms is threatening to call an extraordinary meeting of its shareholders unless its chief executive is sacked in the…

X owner Elon Musk is removing bold text from posts appearing on people's timelines because his "eyes are bleeding", according to a new post. 

While Hezbollah is the most powerful and well-armed of Iran's proxies - the so-called "axis of resistance" spreads far and wide. 

A BBC News journalist had to "crawl along the floor" to use the toilet on a plane because the airline did not allow wheelchairs on to flights.