The King and Queen were due to make the state visit to the Holy See in April,but the health problems of Pope Francis meant the trip was postponed.

The former paratrooper has been charged with the murders of James Wray and William McKinney in Londonderry on January 30 1972.

TWO bonfires have been set alight in Wirral without permission over fears a council was going to take them down.

M&S was ranked the best in six out of the Good Food test’s 17 categories, including joint best turkey crown, best gammon and best ...

UK Energy Secretary Ed Miliband would invite nuclear bosses to Scotland on the first day of a Labour administration at Holyrood in a push for new reactors, he has said.

Radio 2’s listening figures have stabilised after a sharp drop earlier in the year that coincided with the relaunch of its weekday schedule, figures show. The BBC station had an estimated weekly ...

NHS health checks are offered to eligible people between 40 and 74, looking for those at risk of conditions like type 2 diabetes and heart disease.

A paper by the former Labour PM’s think tank is the latest intervention in an increasingly fractious energy debate.

The Met Office has issued four yellow weather warnings over possible disruption on Thursday from Storm Benjamin, as named by Meteo France.

Voters will go to the polls on Thursday in a by-election that could mark a historic shift in Welsh politics. Labour has run the Welsh Parliament since the devolved administration was first established ...

The actor has called on both Holyrood and Westminster to deliver on their respective promises to reduce poverty.

Drivers are being urged to keep a pair of sunglasses in their car after the clocks change amid an 11% increase in crashes. The AA, which issued the advice, warned that the low-lying sun causes ...