SaxaVord on the northernmost inhabited island of Unst is home to the UK’s only licensed ‘vertical launch’ spaceport.

A WOMAN who has dedicated 60 years to helping young people has vowed to carry on as president of girl guiding in Somerset after being awarded ...

Ice skating champions Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean said the news of a damehood and knighthood was the “perfect” way to ...

McClenaghan, from Newtownards in Co Down, becomes an MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) a year after he created ...

More than 1,100 official files at the Public Record Office in Belfast have been opened to the public under the 20-year rule.

The actor said there is a lack of real debate on social media these days and instead people are just ‘screaming’ at each other.

Initiatives to calm interface tensions in Belfast through the use of shared phone networks were frustrated when participants turned off their mobiles during riots, declassified files from 2002 have ...

Any review of the early years of the Stormont political institutions had to focus on the lack of paramilitary decommissioning, former Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble warned the UK Government in ...

Irish civil servants concluded Winston Churchill was “unscrupulous” as they discussed how the crisis over King Edward VIII’s proposed marriage to an American divorcee could be used to the Irish Free ...

The information is contained in newly declassified briefing papers for a meeting of ministers of the newly formed executive in February 2000.

The Royal College of Emergency Medicine has questioned why there is not ‘howls of outrage’ about deaths linked to long waits.

A shop in Bridgwater has closed after 18 years of serving the community. Gold Star Uniforms, located on Eastover and along Celebration Mile, has been the go-to for many parents buying school uniforms ...