The UK Government announced in the summer that winter fuel payment would no longer be universal, scuppering Scottish Government plans.

A police officer almost drowned saving drivers from a landslide on the Rest and Be Thankful during an intense storm.

Scuffles and fistfights between the ruling party and opposition politicians broke out in Serbia’s parliament on Monday, weeks ...

The leader of the Catholic Church in England and Wales has said he wishes Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby was alongside him as the assisted dying debate in Parliament edges closer. Cardinal ...

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.

Last week Home Office minister Dame Angela Eagle said that asylum hotel use had risen since Labour entered government.

A jury has been sworn in to try the case of Grammy-nominated rapper Slowthai, who is accused of rape. The rapper, whose real name is Tyron Frampton, and his co-accused Alex Blake-Walker, 27, deny ...

A couple who buried their three-year-old son’s body in their back garden showed “breathtaking arrogance and cruelty” by ...

Police officers at HMNB Clyde topped up the much-needed supplies of Helensburgh's foodbank ahead of Christmas.

Sinn Fein’s housing spokesman has claimed that handing the housing portfolio to Fianna Fail for another five years would be a “catastrophe”. Eoin O Broin has accused Fianna Fail of overseeing record ...

The local authority has told the Welsh Government the Cwmtillery landslip was a ‘singular wash-out of a former coal tip in the area’.

Researchers have found differences in the brain pathology of paediatric and adult patients that might explain the sometimes “catastrophic outcomes” seen in children following a traumatic brain injury.