The Budget has done “sod all” for working people in Northern Ireland, a Stormont minister has said. Communities Minister Gordon Lyons also cautioned against the powersharing Executive looking at ...

The Institute for Fiscal Studies’ director Helen Miller called on the Chancellor to be more ambitious about measures to boost growth.

Scottish Finance Secretary Shona Robison said the Chancellor had shown an ‘astonishing level of arrogance’ with the comment.

Britain’s Got Talent star Simon Cowell has revealed he has his blood “rinsed” and “filtered” in a process he claims has helped him “age backwards”. The 66-year-old record executive said he had also ...

Latest figures show the number dropped to 204,000 in the year to June 2025, down 69 year-on-year from 649,000.

Pope Leo XIV has arrived in Turkey on his first foreign trip. The journey fulfils the late Pope Francis’ plans to mark an important Orthodox anniversary and bring a message of peace to the region at a ...

Bosses said the business was buoyed by a ‘recovery’ in the cycling market, warm summer weather and ‘fantastic’ sales of children’s bikes.

Actress and The Celebrity Traitors star Ruth Codd has revealed she has undergone a second leg amputation. The 29-year-old had one leg amputated when she was 23, following an injury she sustained while ...

Several local media outlets reported that police had arrested three men on suspicion of manslaughter in connection with the ...

Rachel Reeves has insisted taxes have been kept at “an absolute minimum on ordinary working people”, even as an influential think tank said low-to-middle earners would have been better off with their ...

Other acts announced for the 2026 festival held in Southsea, Hampshire, include Basement Jaxx and Scissor Sisters.

Kemi Badenoch claimed the Prime Minister is considering bringing back Ms Rayner because he is ‘desperate to shore up his ...