Rachel Reeves is expected to use her Budget on October 30 to announce companies bringing critical minerals will get access to UK Export Finance.

Robert Jenrick also said the West should reduce its dependency on China and prepare for China to invade Taiwan ‘within three years’.

Their case has gained new traction in recent weeks after Netflix began streaming the true-crime drama Monsters: The Lyle And Erik Menendez Story.

The Commonwealth Games are “really important” and must continue beyond the scaled down 2026 event in Glasgow, Sir Keir Starmer has said. A slimmed down programme for the next Games was announced on ...

The vivid events of 1974 in Northern Ireland have been brought to life in a powerful oral history project. The year that saw the Ulster Workers Council Strike which brought the region to a halt as ...

An online predator from Northern Ireland who drove one of his catfish victims in the US to take her own life is set to be sentenced. Alexander McCartney, 26, has admitted 185 charges involving 70 ...

Threatening parents with “punitive” fines when their child misses school is not reducing absences, the former children’s commissioner for England has said. Anne Longfield said developing a “more ...

Plans to ban smoking outside pubs are reportedly being dropped after opposition from the hospitality industry. Proposals leaked earlier this year suggested the Government would ban smoking in some ...

The wife of Olympic cyclist Sir Chris Hoy said his decision to reveal his prostate cancer diagnosis has sparked a surge in men seeking advice, as she described him as a “real life superhero”. Lady ...

Highlighting environmental issues was central to Charles’s public life when he was Prince of Wales and he is expected to speak of the “existential threat” of climate change and its impact on many ...

President Joe Biden is expected to formally apologise on Friday for the country’s role in the Indian boarding school system, which devastated the lives of generations of Indigenous children and their ...

It’s that time of year again when young children are cast for their school’s Nativity play and while most will recall the famous tale of Mary and Joseph, this year, children are being given more ...