There are more levers which could be used to tackle child poverty than scrapping the two-child benefit cap, the Deputy Prime Minister has said as the Scottish Government seeks to mitigate it.

Everton confirmed that under-18s head coach Leighton Baines and club captain Seamus Coleman would take charge of first-team affairs on an interim basis, starting with Thursday night’s FA Cup tie ...

Aston Villa boss Unai Emery says winning the FA Cup is one of his side’s targets this season. Villa are seven-times winners of the famous cup competition but have not lifted the trophy since 1957.

Irish leaders have indicated they are content with the handling of recent weather as the end of the cold snap is in sight. Temperatures in parts of Ireland plunged to minus 7.5C in the early hours of ...

A “popular, well-liked” teenager was fatally stabbed near a bus station in a town centre, police have said. Thomas Taylor, 17, was attacked by a group of males at 5.50pm on Wednesday as he walked ...

Veronica Wilson spoke to John Swinney about the unsolved killing of her husband Alistair at their home in Nairn in 2004.

A motorist has been caught driving with their head out of the window “Ace Ventura-style” because the car’s windscreen was blocked by snow. Merseyside Police said this is “simply not acceptable” and ...

Mr Lynch said he was incredibly proud to have served the RMT both as a rank-and-file member and an elected officer.

Police are investigating whether the death of a 78-year-old woman by cardiac arrest after she boarded a London bus was linked to how the vehicle was driven. The elderly woman was taken ill shortly ...

Provisional Home Office figures show 547,000 applications were received between April and December 2024, down from 942,500 in the same period ...

Jimmy Carter, who considered himself an outsider even as he sat in the Oval Office as the 39th US president, is being ...

A judge at the New York Court of Appeals issued a brief order declining to grant a hearing to the US president-elect’s legal team.