Plans to develop 75 new homes on the edge of Weston-super-Mare have been rejected due to the risk of flooding following a Court of Appeal ruling.

A Sinn Fein minister has accused Northern Ireland Secretary Hilary Benn of showing a “blatant disregard” for communities in the region after he challenged the Stormont Executive to reform public ...

A fundraiser is preparing to run to every station on a railway network in just over a day to raise money for a domestic abuse charity. Alex Rigby will run through the night to get to each of the 69 ...

In 2022, Sir Salman Rushdie was about to deliver a lecture to a live audience in western New York when a man ran towards him and plunged a knife into the author’s hand as he raised it in self-defence.

Police are appealing for witnesses to a suspected hate crime in Weston-super-Mare after Islamophobic stickers were seen on street furniture and ...

The Energy Secretary said the extension of any airport would have to meet existing carbon budgets and environmental restrictions.

Navin Ramgoolam said Donald Trump was ‘not a wolf’ and it was better to let him review the prospective deal between the UK and Mauritius.

A row that disrupted parliamentary procedures to elect an Irish premier has been resolved after an intervention from the speaker of the Dail chamber. A Government spokesperson said they accepted Ceann ...

In the second week of commemorative hearings for the victims, Omagh Bombing Inquiry chairman Lord Turnbull told Mr Gallagher that he is known to governments around the world, as well as senior ...

Knife crime involving teenagers is a ‘national crisis that needs a national response’, the former children’s commissioner for England ...

Roman Casselden, 16, and his nine-year-old sister Darcie, died when they were struck by a car which failed to stop, police said.

Five people have been shot at an adult education centre in Sweden, police have said. Authorities said that the danger was not over and urged the public to stay away from the school. The adult ...