VE Day often overshadows VJ Day, descendants of Second World War veterans have said during a screening of their wartime letters. Passers-by paused to watch recordings of loved ones’ reading excerpts ...

A dangerous predator has been jailed over sexual-related online chat with what he thought was a teenage girl.

The Chancellor insisted Labour had been ‘creating more jobs’ since entering office despite vacancy numbers declining over the last quarter.

The Reds have splashed out almost £300m on new signings and also had a £110m offer for Isak turned down by Newcastle.

It took 20 months to hit the milestone under Rishi Sunak’s premiership compared with 13 months under Sir Keir Starmer.

A New York resident has admitted he tried to smuggle protected turtles worth more than one million US dollars from the US to Hong Kong by shipping them in boxes labelled “plastic animal toys”.

James ‘Jim’ Wren survived the sinking of HMS Repulse in December 1941 after it was torpedoed in the South China Sea.

A coach was engulfed by flames on the A19 in County Durham, shutting the major route for two hours. Fire crews rushed to the A-road near Doxford Park just before 10.30am on Tuesday, (August 12) where ...

More than 50,000 migrants have arrived in the UK after crossing the English Channel since Labour won the 2024 general election. Home Office figures showed 474 migrants arrived by small boat on Monday.

A community in Co Down has been “shaken and upset deeply” by the attack on a priest and the death of a man at the weekend, Bishop Alan McGuckian has said. Father John Murray was struck on the head in ...

A voice coaching session with James Bond star Sir Sean Connery was “one of the more surreal episodes in my life”, Nicola Sturgeon has said. She initially thought the famous Scottish actor might be ...

The 25-year-old Sweden international was the subject of a rejected £110million bid from Premier League champions Liverpool.