A local council in Northern Ireland has started a probe into a hotel being used to house asylum seekers. Antrim and Newtownabbey Council confirmed that an enforcement investigation has commenced. It ...

The ruling came after the judge presiding over the case against Ghislaine Maxwell also turned down the government’s request.

Hope has been expressed that the Independent Commission for Reconciliation and Information Recovery (ICRIR) can deliver truth and accountability around the Shankill bomb. Two men bereaved in the ...

The BBC is “not institutionally antisemitic”, the Observer’s editor-in-chief said following a row over the broadcaster’s coverage of the conflict in Gaza. James Harding said the perception of a ...

The malnourished animals were recovered in the in the northern Sallahley district of Somaliland, a breakaway region of Somalia.

MSP Colin Smyth has been arrested and charged in connection with possession of indecent images, prompting his suspension from Scottish Labour. The South Scotland MSP was arrested on Tuesday and is due ...

The most recent Home Office data showed there were 32,345 asylum seekers being housed temporarily in UK hotels at the end of March. This was down 15% from the end of December, whe ...

A police officer who was shot by a man with a crossbow said he lost so much blood that his colleagues were “covered” in it. On Wednesday, a sentencing hearing at Aylesbury Crown Court heard police had ...

The watchdog said the ad was likely to reinforce the offensive racial stereotype that black skin was problematic and that ...

But the former Scottish first minister suggested the writer could be subject to ‘more scrutiny’ on such matters.

Stuart Trentham was sent to prison for 18 months by the same judge who sentenced him in February for an ‘almost identical’ crime.

The University of Hertfordshire is preparing to say farewell to its longstanding vice-chancellor, Professor Quintin McKellar.