Thousands of people have taken part in Christmas Day parkruns across the island of Ireland. Many sported Santa hats and wore festive-themed costumes as they participated in the events which have ...

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The royal family has marked Christmas Day by attending their traditional church service as the nation celebrated the festive season’s highpoint. Led by the King and Queen they walked the short ...

Press Association photographers snapped festive revellers enjoying a Christmas swim and fans who flocked to see the royal family attend church.

The incoming Archbishop of Canterbury has warned in her Christmas Day sermon that “our national conversations about immigration continue to divide us, when our common humanity should unite us”. Dame ...

Pope Leo XIV has delivered his first Christmas Day homily, remembering the people of Gaza being “exposed for weeks to rain, wind and cold” and saying the world’s conflicts can only be silenced through ...

The US Justice Department said that it may need a “few more weeks” to release all of its records on the late sex offender ...

Sir Stephen Fry has said the Prince of Wales and his family were “locked into” The Celebrity Traitors. The broadcaster and actor, 68, appeared in the first celebrity spin-off series of the hit BBC ...

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) issued a yellow cold health alert from 6pm on Thursday to noon on December 27 for south-west England, and the Met Office issued a yellow weather warning for wind ...

Beautifully presented 1930s three-bedroom semi-detached house for sale in Taunton’s sought-after Priorswood Road, guide price £320,000.

This week, the members of Somerset Camera Club have been taking photos of things that strike them as being Christmassy.

Magnolia House in Cheddar, once a 19th-century ladies’ school, for sale at £600k. Period features, three beds, near Bristol ...