The Gender Recognition Act came into effect on April 4 2005, giving adults the right to legally change the sex that was recorded on their birth certificate. This is done by applying for a gender ...

A student died after she got lost while diving at sea, when she got caught in an underwater vortex, an inquest has heard. Emily Sherwin, from Poole, went missing after a dive off Old Harry Rocks, near ...

Somerset Council has said tourism in the county and Exmoor will get a “major boost” with the release of new film The Salt Path next month.

MI5 files were not deliberately withheld from an investigation into the IRA agent known as Stakeknife, a review has found. The review was carried out following discovery of the material last year, ...

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Meanwhile, a Ukrainian delegation was in Paris for a round of bilateral and multilateral meetings with representatives of countries from the “coalition of the willing,” including France, Germany and ...

The Supreme Court said the terms woman and sex in the 2010 Equality Act ‘refer to a biological woman and biological sex’.

The former Ireland captain will take up a full-time coaching position with the Irish Rugby Football Union on his return from the series in Australia.

A person has been hospitalised for smoke inhalation after being rescued from a property blaze in Yeovil, Somerset.

Victory for Liverpool over Leicester would be enough to take Arne Slot’s side into an unassailable lead should second-placed Arsenal follow up their Champions League conquering of Real Madrid by ...

His Majesty’s Prison Shepton Mallet was the UK’s oldest operating prison at the time of its closure in 2013. But despite being shut for ...

Seven-time champion Ronnie O’Sullivan has been drawn to face long-term rival Ali Carter in the first round of the World Snooker Championship in Sheffield. The 49-year-old, who is seeded fifth, ...