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 ...

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

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, ...

OneRen is hosting an event at Renfrew Victory Baths on Friday, May 9, to commemorate 80 years since the end of the Second World War. A 1945-style street party will be held between 10am and 12pm with ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

An art expert who has featured on BBC’s Bargain Hunt has been charged with offences relating to terrorist financing. Art dealer Oghenochuko Ojiri, 53, faces eight counts of failing to make a ...