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

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

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

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

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 ...

The actor said there is a lack of real debate on social media these days and instead people are just ‘screaming’ at each other.

Mervyn Kersh, 101, from Cockfosters, north London, is being honoured for his school talks on Holocaust remembrance and his wartime service.

Author and TV host Richard Osman has said he is “absolutely thrilled” to have been made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE). The game show host, who writes The Thursday Murder Club ...

Luther star Idris Elba has been knighted in the New Year Honours. The 53-year-old actor, who is best known for his role as DCI John Luther in the BBC crime series, has been honoured for his services ...

Scotland’s top police officer is “honoured and grateful” to receive the King’s Police Medal (KPM). Chief Constable Jo Farrell received the medal in the New Year’s Honours List for her distinguished ...

Any review of the early years of the Stormont political institutions had to focus on the lack of paramilitary decommissioning, former Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble warned the UK Government in ...

Comedian Matt Lucas has said he had to read a letter informing him he had been made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) “a couple of times” as he thought it may be a prank.