A new watchdog for public appointments in Northern Ireland has been announced following a four-year vacancy. First Minister Michelle O’Neill and deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly said Claire ...

Dylan Green, 20, was detained for eight years and three months in a young offenders institution for causing death by dangerous driving.

It said at least 60 people were killed in the past 24 hours, bringing the death toll from the Israel-Hamas war that started in 2023 to 62,004.

Adrian Murray is relishing stepping up to seven furlongs with his Phoenix Stakes hero Power Blue in next month’s Goffs Vincent O’Brien National Stakes.

It comes after tests showed the presence of a prescription-only medicine that was not declared on the packaging.

Shock Sussex Stakes winner Qirat has been supplemented for the Sky Bet City of York Stakes on Saturday. The Ralph Beckett-trained four-year-old was added to the Sussex field late in the day, primarily ...

A football steward has won an £8,000 payout after he was wrongly sacked for sending memes about politicians under his club’s “Orwellian” disciplinary policy.

Progress is being made on the construction of new flats and a care centre for vulnerable people in Whitley. The site of the former Willows care home at the corner of Northumberland Avenue and Hexham ...

The child, who was hit in the head by one of six bullets, was an innocent victim of a bloody rivalry between Turkish gangs.

A man arrested after a Bournemouth forward reported being racially abused has been banned from every football stadium in the UK. Antoine Semenyo reported the incident during the first Premier League ...

The award-winning author said she will donate her earnings from her books and BBC adaptions to support the group.

Hollie Doyle will no longer act as the retained rider to owner Imad Al Sagar, with Oisin Murphy instead due to take up the position. Doyle was in the saddle each time Al Sagar’s star mare Nashwa took ...