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

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 ...

Failure to supply a panel umpire will result in five league points being deducted for each occurrence up to a maximum of eight matches - i.e. five points for one match up to a maximum of 40 points - ...

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 Timothy Taylor’s Craven League are getting tough on clubs that do not provide panel umpires, but the Silsden second XI is exempt from the ...

Newly-released files show Downing St officials argued conversations with foreign leaders must remain confidential.

Strictly Come Dancing head judge Shirley Ballas has said she was “surprised” when the show’s hosts announced they would be stepping down after 11 years in the role.

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 ...

Northern Ireland was on the “cusp of a new beginning” with the return of the Stormont political institutions, officials predicted in 2000. A briefing document among declassified files at the Public ...

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

A meeting at Stormont discussed using terrorism laws to tackle displays of paramilitary flags and murals in 2004, declassified files have shown. The papers reveal that a senior PSNI officer stated ...