Creating a new threshold and means test would allow households not on pension credit to apply directly for winter fuel payments. Raising it 20% above the pension credit threshold would cost around ...

President Donald Trump is hosting South African president Cyril Ramaphosa for White House talks at a moment when relations between the two countries are strained. Mr Trump has been attacking South ...

An inquest into the death of Jay Slater in Tenerife last summer has been adjourned after a plea from his tearful mother. Debbie Duncan said the 19-year-old had gone on holiday and never come home, and ...

Northern Ireland’s legacy body received advice around a potential move to enable victims and perpetrators to meet where there is a desire to, a Westminster committee has heard. Sir Declan Morgan, ...

The UK Government has risked “undermining public confidence” in its approach to a hearing of the Omagh Bombing Inquiry, its chairman has been told.

Terry McSpadden, a then 24-year-old father of two, was last seen after spending the evening in a pub in Wisbech.

SDLP leader Claire Hanna pressed the UK government to call a public inquiry into the murder of the GAA official.

On Wednesday it was announced that following a private family funeral, Sir Tom will make a final journey past his beloved Easter Road stadium in Edinburgh on May 28 so fans and members of the public ...

Immigration rights lawyers have said the deportations violated a court order against sending people to countries other than their homelands.

The First Minister was speaking after the Prime Minister announced plans to make more pensioners eligible for the allowance.

Two Irish diplomats were among the delegation that Israeli soldiers fired in the vicinity of in the West Bank, the Irish Government said. Ireland’s Deputy Premier and Foreign Affairs Minister Simon ...

The company told staff it is launching a consultation which will impact around 5, or roughly 70, of the group’s 1,400-strong workforce.