Jurgen Maier’s comments come after energy secretary Ed Miliband vowed to take on ‘blockers’ of power schemes earlier this year.

Media personality Christine Hamilton said Storm Bert has brought the worst flooding in two decades after her kitchen was submerged in two inches of water.

More than a dozen people are missing after a tourist cruise vessel sank in the Red Sea, officials in Egypt have said. Authorities were searching for 17 people who went missing, the governor of the Red ...

Women emerging from humble beginnings to achieve great things was a constant theme in Barbara Taylor Bradford’s novels, echoing her own rise to sparkling literary success, and in 2009 I was honoured ...

The Taoiseach said he hoped voters would not judge him on the basis of a criticised encounter with a disability care worker in Co Cork.

A gunman was seen firing directly into a car in a double shooting in which an eight-year-old girl was seriously hurt. The girl, who is in hospital in a stable condition, was shot alongside a ...

Foreign Secretary David Lammy has said “we will do all we can” to support a British man who has reportedly been captured by Russian forces while fighting for Ukraine. Mr Lammy was asked about the ...

A group of friends has gone viral after recreating a photograph from their first girls' holiday - more than 50 years on.

A new series of Channel 4's 24 Hours In Police Custody is returning this week telling the story of twisted online harassment. The newest episode shares the story of a man and a woman who faced a ...

Bestselling novelist Barbara Taylor Bradford, who wrote A Woman Of Substance, has died at the age of 91, it has been announced. The author died peacefully at her home on Sunday November 24 following a ...

The pathological investigation was carried out by the Veterinary Investigation Centre at Scotland’s Rural College in Dumfries ...

The Bank of England should be “vigilant” over a potential economic slowdown in the UK, according to a deputy governor at the Bank. Clare Lombardelli said some recent UK economic data had showed ...