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 Bank of England has cut interest rates to its lowest level for two years as it warned an escalating global trade war will drag on growth over the next three years. The central bank cut the UK’s ...

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

Bargain Hunt star Ogheneochuko 'Ochuko' Ojiri has been charged by the Metropolitan Police under the Terrorism Act 2000. Officers from the National Terrorist Financial Investigation Unit (NTFIU) have ...

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

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, ...

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

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 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 ...

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 ...

Pilot Officer William McMullen was captaining a training flight in a Lancaster Bomber on January 13 1945 when the plane caught fire above Darlington.

A petition calling for the government to rethink changes to the Winter Fuel Payments has been signed by more than 150,000 people, with a recent surge following speculation that the policy may be ...