Singer Olly Alexander has said he “knew” he would not win the Eurovision Song Contest when he competed for the UK last year.

Former top civil servant Baroness Sue Gray has been appointed to serve on Queen’s University Senate. Dr Feargal McCormack was also announced as a pro-chancellor at the Belfast university, while Anna ...

Sir Keir Starmer has gathered senior ministers for an urgent Cabinet meeting on Gaza. It comes as the Prime Minister faces renewed pressure to recognise Palestine as a state immediately and after he ...

Actor James Nesbitt has said he was “honoured” to receive a companionship from Sir Paul McCartney at a Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA) graduation ceremony.

The suspect, a 42-year-old man from Bedfordshire, boarded a flight out of the UK in the early hours of Tuesday morning.

The First Minister said the US President made his views clear during their dinner but did not press him to back new drilling.

A gunman who killed four people at a Manhattan office building was trying to target the headquarters of the National Football League (NFL) but took the wrong lift, according to New York City mayor ...

The US president promoting Scotland is a “good thing” regardless of his politics, the leader of Scottish Labour has said. Anas Sarwar has been consistently outspoken about Donald Trump, accusing him ...

Ronan Hughes was jailed for 20 years in 2021 for the manslaughter of 39 Vietnamese nationals found in a vehicle in Essex in October 2019.

Indie band The Wombats, who met while studying at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, were also honoured.

Essex Police said the tally of people charged in connection with protests at The Bell Hotel in Epping now stands at 14.

The England Women’s football team have lifted their European Championships trophy outside Buckingham Palace as thousands joined in the celebrations of their dramatic victory.