By Lindsay Ash SOMEONE once said that “teachers are well overpaid as educators and massively underpaid as child carers”, and ...

Rap group Kneecap’s apology to the families of murdered MPs was “half-hearted”, Downing Street said. The Belfast trio addressed the families of Sir David Amess and Jo Cox, saying “we never intended to ...

Author Sir Philip Pullman has announced the final volume in his best-selling series The Book Of Dust. The Rose Field will be released on October 23, 30 years after Sir Philip introduced Lyra Belacqua ...

An alleged knifeman sliced and stabbed a man in a “ferocious attack” at Notting Hill Carnival, a court has heard. Rumarni Tuitt is accused of using a 12-inch Zombie knife against Kamani Spooner, then ...

King Frederik X of Denmark has arrived in Greenland, kicking off a visit to the semi-autonomous territory that US president Donald Trump wants to annex because of its strategic Arctic location.

The race for Champions League qualification has an intriguing added dimension this season with the Premier League having been granted a fifth place. With Arsenal having reached the last four in Europe ...

A watchdog report into the Kingsmill Massacre has identified a series of failings in the original police investigation of the IRA atrocity, including a “wholly insufficient” deployment of resources to ...

A former police sergeant has appeared in court charged with striking and injuring a man during an arrest. The ex-officer, who can now be named as Paul Street following submissions from the PA news ...

A new study will give elderly people slush to drink to see if it can help stave off heat-related illnesses like heatstroke. Experts from the University of Brighton will explore if the “very simple ...

Two men went on a “moronic mission” to fell the famous Sycamore Gap tree in an act of “mindless vandalism” which they filmed on a phone, a jury has been told. Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers used a ...

Sir Richard Branson said it “feels really special” as he officially opened Virgin’s first hotel in London. The 74-year-old founder of the Virgin Group drove a giant red suitcase to the new location at ...

Mike Peters, frontman of Welsh band The Alarm, has died from blood cancer aged 66. The rock star, who was forced to cancel a US tour last year after being diagnosed with fast-growing lymphoma, had ...