GfK’s long-running Consumer Confidence Index increased by two points in October – although it still languishes at minus 17.

Voting has started in the Irish presidential election. The race has boiled down to a head-to-head between Catherine Connolly, an independent who has secured the backing of left-wing opposition parties ...

Christmas Island National Park acting manager Alexia Jankowski said on Thursday there were up to 200 million of the endemic ...

Plaid Cymru has defeated Reform UK in a fiercely-fought Welsh Parliament by-election, with defending party Labour trailing in third. Nigel Farage’s party was hoping to win its first seat at the ballot ...

The SNP’s Westminster leader and Aberdeen South MP has urged the Government to act “swiftly” on the issue as the scandal surrounding Andrew’s friendship with the late paedophile Jeffrey Epstein and ...

The Scottish Affairs Committee also said the Scottish and UK governments should have acted sooner to prepare for job losses at Grangemouth.

On Thursday, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer announced an additional £10 million in security funding to protect Muslim communities from hate crimes.

Heather Humphreys is a Presbyterian who was raised on a rural farm near the border and became a popular minister who made a bid for the Irish presidency. The 64-year-old mother-of-two met her husband ...

An extra 70 sites, from hospitals to mental health facilities, will be able yo install the clean tech to save on bills.

Votes are being counted in the crucial Caerphilly Welsh Parliament by-election after weeks of fierce campaigning by parties hoping to win the Welsh Parliament constituency from Labour. Labour has led ...

Catherine Connolly, a former psychologist and barrister from Galway, is a self-described political “underdog” who has united the Irish left for the presidential election. The 68-year-old mother of two ...