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 ...

The professor of personalised medicine at Ulster University was recognised for her services to research, innovation and ...

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

Premier League action returns to centre-stage with six top-flight games including Arsenal’s clash with third-placed Aston Villa at the Emirates Stadium. Wolves look for some belated post-Christmas ...

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.

MI5 blocked an appeal by Irish prime minister Bertie Ahern for the UK to share intelligence on any terrorist threat to the Sellafield nuclear facility, according to newly-released government files.

Ian Holloway was delighted to see Swindon exact revenge on Cheltenham by recording a 2-0 away victory. Cheltenham won 1-0 at Swindon when the West Country rivals met earlier in December. But ...

Scottish Tory leader Russell Findlay has said he is “not holding my breath” on achieving a budget deal with the Scottish Government. The key ask of the party, he told the Press Association, is the ...

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 ...

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

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 ...