Pensioners who are challenging a UK Government decision to cut the winter fuel payment would not have been eligible for it due to living in Scotland, a court has heard.

The fire, which broke out early on Tuesday, trapped many of the registered 238 guests inside, leaving 78 people dead and dozens of others injured.

Deveca Rose was in Sainsbury’s when her two sets of twins, aged three and four, became trapped in a blaze at the family home.

A closure of the A76 between Cumnock and Auchinleck will be in place at times this week as vital work is carried out.

More than 280,000 homes and businesses are without power in Northern Ireland after Storm Eowyn battered the region. Hundreds of trees came down during the storm, damaging properties and blocking roads ...

A community grouped together to save the reptiles after Cyclone Dikeledi struck the southern part of the island earlier this ...

Twins Bryson, Kyson, Logan and Leyton, aged four and three, died in fear and suffering after their mother Deveca Rose left them in a locked terraced house that caught fire on the evening of December ...

A man who committed “an attack of monstrous evil with the worst possible consequences” on an eight-week-old baby has been jailed for 21 years. Tom Kember, 27, caused grievous bodily harm with intent ...

District Judge John Zani rejected the challenge by Kimberlee Singler, 36, at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Friday.

A proposed law to compel the Government to help achieve climate and nature targets has failed to make progress in the Commons. The Government successfully moved a motion to adjourn the second reading ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has suggested his country might not withdraw all of its forces from Lebanon by a deadline set in its ceasefire with Hezbollah. Under the deal reached in ...

ESB Networks in Ireland and NIE Networks say they expect significant further outages as Storm Eowyn continues to batter parts of the island.