Cherie Blair is made a CBE in the New Year Honours for her services to women’s issues and charity.

Former foreign secretary Margaret Beckett is among the politicians recognised on the 2013 New Year Honours List.

The UK’s ongoing financial problems are putting an increasing strain on family relationships, a survey by the Relate charity suggests.

Well-off pensioners who do not need their winter fuel allowance should donate the money to charity, a Conservative minister says.

A government minister writes to magazine editors asking them not to promote post-Christmas “miracle” diets because they pose a “health […]

The 1982 invasion of the Falkland Islands by Argentina took the then prime minister Margaret Thatcher by surprise, newly released […]