A brown bear in Kent receiving life-saving brain surgery and the “Hardest Geezer” running the entire length of Africa were among the most eye-catching uplifting moments of 2024. Here, the PA news ...

Irish officials were worried that a US decision to designate the Real IRA (RIRA) as a foreign terrorist organisation might help recruitment for the paramilitary group. Just years after the signing of ...

A union leader has called for 2025 to be a “year of delivery” for workers after 14 years of “Tory chaos”. TUC general secretary Paul Nowak said in his new year message that working people desperately ...

Viral TikTokers known as the Spud Bros vowed to make jacket potatoes “sexy again” as the food became a global phenomenon in 2024.

Thousands of motorists have been caught drug-driving at least four times, sparking calls for ministers to consider introducing rehabilitation courses for offenders. A total of 33,020 British drivers ...

Details of a threat to poison English water supplies have emerged in newly unsealed documents from the Irish national archives.

US President-elect Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Friday to pause the potential TikTok ban from going into effect until his administration can pursue a “political resolution” to the issue.

Jazwell Brown, of Santa Cruz Avenue, Milton Keynes, will appear at High Wycombe Magistrates’ Court on Saturday.

World number one Scottie Scheffler has undergone surgery on a hand injury he sustained while cooking Christmas dinner. The 28-year-old American has been forced to withdraw from the first tournament of ...

The oldest living survivor of the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour and the last remaining survivor of the USS Utah, has died. Warren Upton was 105.

An avid cyclist has cycled a number of festive themed routes including the shape of a Christmas pudding as part of a 500km cycle challenge. Rebecca Laurel, 25, from Leicester, completed a 64km ...