A co-owner of Avanti West Coast has emerged as another potential rival to Eurostar in running passenger trains between London and Paris. FS Italiane Group said it plans to launch services through the ...

Rachel Reeves has said US tariffs will “continue to have huge implications” before insisting the Bank of England believes the UK banking system is “resilient”. The Chancellor, in a message to families ...

A childhood thank-you letter written by King James VI of Scotland aged seven is to go on show later this month as part of a new exhibition. In the letter, the first known to have been written by King ...

A 15-year-old boy and 13-year-old girl have been found guilty of killing an 80-year-old dog walker who was filmed being assaulted before his death. The six-week trial heard Bhim Kohli, 80, was injured ...

More than 50 firefighters have been tackling a significant wildfire in the Mourne Mountains in Co Down. It comes after a major incident was declared at the weekend when a large wildfire close to the ...

The Post Office is offloading 108 crown branches, which are currently directly owned and run by the company. Here is the full list of sites affected.

The Irish government has been accused of “wasting” more than seven years in an inquest into the death of a dissident republican. Kieran Doherty, 31, was found dead on the Braehead Road in Londonderry ...

The Duke of Sussex has been “singled out for different, unjustified and inferior treatment”, the Court of Appeal has heard in the royal’s challenge over his level of security in the UK.

Celebre d’Allen, who collapsed after running in the Randox Grand National at Aintree on Saturday, has died after his condition deteriorated overnight. Trained in partnership by Philip Hobbs and ...

South Korea’s military fired warning shots after North Korean soldiers crossed the rivals’ tense border, South Korean officials said. South Korea’s military said in a statement that about 10 North ...

Mr Rutte said Nato is worried about China’s military exercises near Taiwan and “we follow them very closely”. Japan considers China as a threat in the region and has in recent years accelerated ...

The process could see the sites taken over by other businesses, while others could face closure as franchises are moved to different premises.