The year has not been short of dramatic events and developments, and here the PA news agency provides a month by month look back on 2024.

The National Trust says 2024 was good for trees, heather and seals but bad for bees, butterflies, bats and natterjack toads.

Combs is in jail in New York awaiting a criminal trial on federal sex trafficking charges. He also faces a wave of sexual assault lawsuits, many of which were filed by the plaintiff’s lawyer, Tony ...

Just published: front page of the Financial Times, UK edition, Friday 27 December https://t.co/EuA2NgKsTT pic.twitter.com/ZeK8loQF1D The Daily Mirror concentrates on two women who died in Milton ...

Wellies, sequins and beer dominated the consumer year of washout weather, touring pop megastars and national sporting celebrations.

The UK does not “make as much use of open prisons” as it could, a former Conservative justice minister has suggested. David Gauke, who is leading the Government’s sentencing review, also told the ...

The National Trust’s review of the year’s wildlife and weather sees past drought give way to wet, mild conditions in 2024.

Stock indexes drifted to a mixed finish on Wall Street on Thursday as some heavyweight technology and communications sector stocks offset gains elsewhere in the market. The S&P 500 fell less than 0.1% ...

Detectives in Northern Ireland have launched a murder investigation following the death of a man in Newtownards. Three people have been arrested in connection with the fatal incident in the Co Down ...

Stormontgate in 2002 led to the suspension of devolution and the reintroduction of direct rule in Northern Ireland.

Harry Wilson and Rodrigo Muniz struck late on to give Fulham their first derby win at Stamford Bridge in 45 years.

NHS Blood and Transplant said the organs were provided by 11 donors after death and included a heart, lungs, kidneys, livers, pancreas and bowel.