Stargazers across the UK caught sight of shooting stars in the early hours of Wednesday as the Perseid meteor shower hit its annual peak. Every summer, the Earth slams into a trail of debris from the ...

A 30-year-old man has been charged with murder and attempted murder following the death of a man and the serious assault of a priest in Downpatrick.

BBC Radio Scotland presenter Bryan Burnett will return to the airwaves on Thursday after undergoing cancer treatment. The broadcaster announced in June he would step back from his programme Get It On ...

Some of the 800 National Guard members deployed by US president Donald Trump began arriving in the nation’s capital on Tuesday. It comes after the White House ordered federal forces to take over the ...

Weybridge sailor Will Harris hopes a growing British influence in The Ocean Race Europe can ultimately result in a team being based on these shores.

PIP Hare is used to taking on some of the most daunting solo sailing challenges on the planet, but it was the chance to be part of a team ...

Alex Salmond would rather have seen the SNP “destroyed” than have it succeed without him, Nicola Sturgeon has claimed. In her memoir, Frankly, the former first minister said she had come to the ...

A Cold War bunker in Oxfordshire is helping the Women’s Rugby World Cup achieve parity with the men’s game. While World Rugby have a target of achieving equality at men’s and women’s World Cups by ...

The cruel act is believed to have taken place on Sunday evening on Abbey Road, Llandudno. An eye-witness, who asked not to be named, said: "My partner and I witnessed the event on Sunday evening. It ...

A judge will decide in October whether the 15-year-old boy who stabbed Harvey to death at their Sheffield school should lose his anonymity.

Hazel, a resident at North Wales Housing’s Llys y Coed extra care scheme in Llanfairfechan, joins the elite club of centenarians in Wales.

The European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites and the European Space Agency are leading the scheme.