A brown bear in Kent receiving life-saving brain surgery and the “Hardest Geezer” running the entire length of Africa were among the most eye-catching uplifting moments of 2024. Here, the PA news ...

Gavin And Stacey star Ruth Jones is reprising her role as Vanessa “Nessa” Jenkins to read Radio 4’s Shipping Forecast as the programme celebrates its centenary on the BBC on New Year’s Day.

Reform UK’s Nigel Farage says he will spend the next couple of days weighing up possible action against Kemi Badenoch.

A decades-long dispute over the ownership of the cannons included many twists, including concerns that they could be targetted by the ...

Irish officials were worried that a US decision to designate the Real IRA (RIRA) as a foreign terrorist organisation might help recruitment for the paramilitary group. Just years after the signing of ...

Concerns were raised about Robert Lowry, who presided over scores of non-jury trials of Republicans during the Troubles, newly released files reveal.

Tony Blair once suggested that nationalists in Northern Ireland could support England in the World Cup after Ireland was knocked out, according to reports on a 2002 meeting.

Figures obtained through an Environmental Information Regulations request showed a lack of assessments of SSSIs.

A union leader has called for 2025 to be a “year of delivery” for workers after 14 years of “Tory chaos”. TUC general secretary Paul Nowak said in his new year message that working people desperately ...

Details of a threat to poison English water supplies have emerged in newly unsealed documents from the Irish national archives.

Fog which has caused disruption to flights at some of the UK’s busiest airports will persist into the weekend, forecasters have said. The murky weather has shrouded much of the country over the past ...

It took more than two years for Ireland to accept the gift of a painting of Daniel O’Connell from a bank, after concerns that the Irish parliament was only receiving a copy of the original portrait. O ...