The Monetary Policy Committee voted by a majority of 5-4 to cut interest rates to 4.25%. The Bank also predicted that the UK economy will grow by 1% this year, upgrading its previous 0.75% forecast on ...

Denmark has said it will summon the top US diplomat in the country for an explanation following a Wall Street Journal report about the United States stepping up intelligence gathering on Greenland, a ...

A former Britain’s Got Talent finalist who landed a lucrative record deal with Simon Cowell has been cleared of raping two women. Andrew Johnston, 30, who competed as a singer on the television ...

The GMB, Unite and Unison unions said 80% of members backed strikes while 94% backed industrial action short of strikes in a consultative ballot to be followed by a formal vote, with the figures an ...

The jury in the trial of two former friends accused of chopping down the Sycamore Gap tree has been sent out to start deliberations. Groundworker Daniel Graham, 39, and mechanic Adam Carruthers, 32, ...

RTE director general Kevin Bakhurst has said the issue of Israel’s participation in the Eurovision Song Contest is very complicated. Mr Bakhurst has written to the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) to ...

Higher education institutions have announced redundancies and course closures over the past year as a result of growing financial pressures.

Black smoke billowed from the Sistine Chapel on Thursday morning, signalling a new pope has yet to be chosen. Cardinals resumed their voting in the secret conclave, having already failed to choose a ...

Victoria Atkins asked whether Steve Reed will ‘on a point of principle’ resign if Labour does not change its approach to inheritance tax.

The First Minister said an agreement is a welcome alternative to the ‘enormous economic damage’ from Donald Trump’s tariffs.