A rare 245-year-old Neapolitan violin has been presented to the leader of the Ulster Youth Orchestra (UYO) for use during her tenure. Anna Jansson, 21, from Cork, a student at the Kunst-Universitat ...

Waitrose boss James Bailey is to step down from the supermarket chain later this year, parent group The John Lewis Partnership has said. Mr Bailey has led the upmarket grocery business as its managing ...

Israel’s military has said it will call up 60,000 reservists ahead of an expanded military operation in Gaza City. Many ...

Seven breaches were serious enough to be reported to the UK’s data watchdog, the Information Commissioner’s Office.

Barry Williams, Poundland’s managing director, said sticking to the £1 price point had prevented it from selling products that customers had to visit rival stores to buy. The chain billed the move as ...

Merseyside Police said the fire at Woolton Hall, Liverpool, on Tuesday ‘appears to have been an extremely reckless act’.

Ethel Caterham, of Lightwater, Surrey, who was born in August 1909, succeeded to the title of oldest living person in April.

The staff, who provide support for passengers with reduced mobility at Edinburgh Airport, will walk out on several occasions next month.

London and south-east England have seen larger year-on-year falls in the GCSE pass rate than all other regions, the 2025 exam figures show. Some 71.6% of entries in London were awarded grade 4 or ...

The University of Edinburgh Sport has announced a ground-breaking three-year partnership with sports hydration brand Grilla, in one of the ...

Historically, experts classified giraffes as a single species with nine subspecies, but that has been overturned by the new classification.

The number of pupils receiving top grades in GCSE examinations in Northern Ireland has risen. Results have been delivered to more than 32,000 pupils across the region. The provisional results show ...