Merseyside Police said the fire at Woolton Hall, Liverpool, on Tuesday ‘appears to have been an extremely reckless act’.

Ethel Caterham, of Lightwater, Surrey, who was born in August 1909, succeeded to the title of oldest living person in April.

Aimee Betro flew to the UK to carry out the plot in Birmingham, which failed when the gun jammed, allowing the victim to escape.

An English tourist is in a critical condition after a serious assault in Temple Bar in Dublin city. Emergency services attended the scene of the incident in the Temple Bar Square area at around ...

The number of pupils receiving top grades in GCSE examinations in Northern Ireland has risen. Results have been delivered to more than 32,000 pupils across the region. The provisional results show ...

The proportion of entries getting at least a 4 or a C grade – considered a “standard pass” – has fallen from 67.6 per cent in 2024 to 67.4 per cent this year – a drop of 0.2 percentage points, but ...

Ethel Caterham, who lives in Surrey, became the oldest living person in April after the death of Brazilian nun Sister Inah Canbarro Lucas at 116.

Historically, experts classified giraffes as a single species with nine subspecies, but that has been overturned by the new classification.

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has been granted permission to intervene in legal action over the issue.

Around 50 firefighters are tackling a field fire in the area of Hinton Way in Great Shelford this afternoon (Wednesday, 20 ...

A police officer who was shot by a man with a crossbow said he lost so much blood that his colleagues were “covered” in it.

Lawyers for Roxy Media said last month that the company was seeking to take the case to a tax tribunal. The company applied ...