As New Year's Eve approaches, millions of UK households are preparing for an evening of fireworks, sparklers, and festive celebrations. However, experts are warning that celebrating the start of 2026 ...

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

On a less localised level, Lloyds said that most parts of the UK recorded growth in the value of homes in 2025. Northern Ireland led the way with growth of 5.8%, although property values fell in ...

Newly-released files show PM was slow-handclapped after failing to heed a warning to avoid ‘capital P politics’ in his address.

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 ...

The information is contained in newly declassified briefing papers for a meeting of ministers of the newly formed executive in February 2000.

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

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

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 ...

Irish civil servants concluded Winston Churchill was “unscrupulous” as they discussed how the crisis over King Edward VIII’s proposed marriage to an American divorcee could be used to the Irish Free ...

Judges warned in 2004 that demands caused by the use of the Irish language in courts in Northern Ireland had the potential to undermine public confidence in the justice system.

The Royal College of Emergency Medicine has questioned why there is not ‘howls of outrage’ about deaths linked to long waits.