SaxaVord on the northernmost inhabited island of Unst is home to the UK’s only licensed ‘vertical launch’ spaceport.

Ice skating champions Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean said the news of a damehood and knighthood was the “perfect” way to ...

Professor Tara Moore has said it is “lovely” to be recognised for her hard work after being made an Officer of the Order of ...

McClenaghan, from Newtownards in Co Down, becomes an MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) a year after he created ...

Ian Holloway was delighted to see Swindon exact revenge on Cheltenham by recording a 2-0 away victory. Cheltenham won 1-0 at Swindon when the West Country rivals met earlier in December. But ...

Initiatives to calm interface tensions in Belfast through the use of shared phone networks were frustrated when participants turned off their mobiles during riots, declassified files from 2002 have ...

Newly-released files show Downing St officials argued conversations with foreign leaders must remain confidential.

Scottish Tory leader Russell Findlay has said he is “not holding my breath” on achieving a budget deal with the Scottish Government. The key ask of the party, he told the Press Association, is the ...

More than 1,100 official files at the Public Record Office in Belfast have been opened to the public under the 20-year rule.

Gerry Adams said his party was ‘deeply concerned’ about proposed new laws to tackle anti-social behaviour in 2004.

MI5 blocked an appeal by Irish prime minister Bertie Ahern for the UK to share intelligence on any terrorist threat to the Sellafield nuclear facility, according to newly-released government files.

Northern Ireland was on the “cusp of a new beginning” with the return of the Stormont political institutions, officials predicted in 2000. A briefing document among declassified files at the Public ...