Women on gynaecological waiting lists and orthopaedics patients are among those who will be offered treatment privately.

France’s former president Nicolas Sarkozy and 11 co-defendants have gone on trial over the alleged illegal financing of his 2007 presidential campaign by the government of then-Libyan leader Muammar ...

Sister Simona Brambilla has been named prefect of the department responsible for all of the Catholic Church’s religious orders.

A woman is warning people over using hot water bottles to save money on heating bills - after one burnt her so badly she struggled to use the ...

TGL is a new fast-paced, indoor team competition fronted by Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy in which the action is played out on two highly sophisticated golf simulators. Unofficially, it stands for ...

Austria’s President has tasked far-right Freedom Party leader Herbert Kickl with trying to form a new government. Mr Kickl’s party won Austria’s parliamentary election in September, taking 28.8% of ...

The fate of an “ugly monstrosity” in a growing Somerset village will be settled at a public inquiry just after Easter.

Nationwide customers have been warned that interest rates on more than 20 savings accounts are being cut from next month. The building society has taken the decision to cut rates on some savings ...

Sunday was the UK’s coldest night of the winter so far, with a temperature of minus 13.3C recorded in Loch Glascarnoch in the Highlands.

Alcohol misuse killed a record number of people in Somerset last year, new figures show. Alcohol Change UK said these deaths were an ...

SOMERSET Council is proposing the introduction of a 20-mile-per-hour zone in Frome. The plans involve introducing the speed limit on parts of a number of roads around the town. They are intended to ...

Tottenham striker Solanke was straight out of the blocks against Newcastle to show his scoring touch. Solanke headed Spurs into a fourth-minute lead, his seventh Premier League goal of the season and ...