THE fourth tranche of a scheme which helps Islanders buy their first home has reopened today with £2m of government funding ...

Disclosure work is under way in an inquest into the death of a Belfast man whose badly beaten body was discovered in the Republic of Ireland. The body of Thomas Lockard, 34, was found by the side of a ...

Pre-excavation work on the site of a notorious former mother and baby home in Tuam in Co Galway has begun. The preparatory phase, which will last around four weeks, comes ahead of the full-scale ...

A sheriff has noted former Scotland rugby union captain Stuart Hogg’s “complete compliance” with a community payback order, as he said no further review would take place. The 32-year-old pleaded ...

Five further arrests have been made by police investigating disorder in Northern Ireland last week. Police have said the latest arrests include a 25-year-old man who has been detained in connection ...

ONE of the island’s biggest musical celebrations will return later this month, with 500 children from 14 schools performing at the Jardins de la Mer Beach Amphitheatre. Led by renowned choir director ...

The search for a person who fell overboard from a ferry in the Firth of Clyde has been suspended, the coastguard said. A major search was launched after the alarm was raised on Sunday afternoon, with ...

Two skydivers who died at an aerodrome in Devon have been named by police. Emergency services were called to the area of Dunkeswell Aerodrome at about 1pm on Friday, following concerns for the welfare ...

A woman who was killed when a pallet containing more than two tonnes of bricks fell from a crane was with a friend and they had just dropped their children off at school, a court heard. Michaela Boor, ...

An Air India flight returned to Hong Kong on Monday shortly after take-off because of a mid-air technical issue, days after another of the airline’s planes crashed and killed at least 270 people. Air ...

A vigil has been held in memory of a teenager who was missing for four weeks before his body was found. Cole Cooper, 19, was last seen by his family on May 2 or 3, and was reported missing by them on ...

THE last-surviving direct descendant of Jersey-born philanthropist and businessman TB Davis has said she is “very pleased” that Howard Davis Hall has reopened to the public after it was shuttered in ...