From grabbing a bargain to sea swimming and watching traditional sporting events, people have indulged in a range of Boxing Day activities.

Analysts predicted Boxing Day shoppers would spend £236 each on average in the Boxing Day sales this year, with most purchases made online.

Footage circulating online appeared to show the aircraft making a steep descent before smashing into the ground in a fireball.

An Israeli strike has killed five Palestinian journalists outside a hospital in the Gaza Strip, the Health Ministry said.

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Two women have died and a man and teenage boy suffered serious injuries after reports of a stabbing in Milton Keynes on Christmas Day. A 49-year-old man from Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, was ...

Police in Scotland are increasingly concerned about a missing man from London who is thought to be in the Highlands. Marc Drostle, 28, is believed to have travelled to the Aviemore area two weeks ago ...

A digital counter on the Reform website showed the membership ticking over the 131,680 of the Conservative Party before lunchtime on Boxing Day ...

Pope Francis has inaugurated his Holy Year at Rome’s main prison, taking a message of hope to inmates and involving them in the Catholic Church’s once every quarter-century celebration which is ...

Gavin And Stacey star Laura Aikman has revealed her family only discovered she was returning to the BBC sitcom while watching the finale ...

Painstaking work has commenced to conserve and digitise one of the oldest paper documents still in existence on the island of ...