A defence minister has declined to outline the timetable for when the Government will meet its “cast-iron commitment” to increase defence spending to 2.5% of GDP.

Hundreds of engineers are completing the final repair work on Cumbria’s power network following Storm Éowyn to restore the last ...

If the meeting – which is due to host the Grade One Scilly Isles Novices’ Chase – is able to proceed as originally scheduled with both chase and hurdle races, the three additional chases will be ...

Katie White compared bottom trawling, which is the act of dragging heavy nets across the seabed, with ‘ripping up an orchard to pick an apple’.

The UK Government is working hard to meet requests for assistance from the devolved Stormont Executive in the wake of Storm Eowyn, Northern Ireland Secretary Hilary Benn has said.

The Prime Minister spoke of his ‘harrowing’ visit to Block 27 at Auschwitz with his wife Victoria earlier this month.

Minister Dara Calleary said he understood people’s ‘frustration’ and that authorities were ‘working as hard as possible’.

A teenager has appeared in court charged with terrorism offences after being arrested outside a mosque. The 16-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, appeared at Greenock Sheriff Court on ...

CUMBRIA Police are appealing for information on the whereabouts of a Barrow man who was last seen over one month ago.

Motherwell manager Stuart Kettlewell has quit after abuse from a section of fans forced his family away from matches. Motherwell sit fifth in the William Hill Premiership but some fans had turned ...

BARROW Raiders head coach Paul Crarey was pleased that his squad showed no mercy against amateur side Crosfields.

Emma Little-Pengelly said the Republic’s president was ‘absolutely wrong’ to raise the issues at the annual Holocaust memorial event.