Thursday’s base rate reduction by the Bank of England would help boost housing market activity, property experts said.

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 ...

Hazel Kaye, who turns 99 in September, met Moore while entertaining troops working for the Entertainments National Service Association.

On May 8 1945 the nation celebrated Victory in Europe (VE) Day, as church bells rang out across the country and people gathered to revel in the end of hostilities, and crowds famously gathered outside ...

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Charity Open Seas made the allegation more than a year after a decision in its favour at the Court of Session in Edinburgh.

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 ...

The minister was accused of ‘dismissing concerns’ of victims in comments she made during a BBC radio appearance.

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 ...

The online encyclopaedia says the new safety rules could threaten its approach to presenting neutral and reliable information.

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 ...