A Labour councillor who called for far-right protesters’ throats to be cut at an anti-racism protest told police the “ill-advised” comments were made “in the heat of the moment”, a court has heard.

Rachel Reeves made her first trip to the province as Chancellor, visiting the filmmaking facilities at Studio Ulster in Belfast.

Clive Cox’s talented youngster impressed at the Wiltshire track when defying a penalty there on his second start, and after being narrowly denied when upped in class for Ascot’s Pat Eddery Stakes he ...

The jury in the trial of a former priest accused of sexually assaulting women has retired to consider its verdicts. Christopher Brain, 68, from Wilmslow, Cheshire, was the leader of evangelical ...

The Government has appointed insolvency specialists to step up planning for Thames Water in case the troubled water company collapses. Environment Secretary Steve Reed signed off the appointment, with ...

A sergeant was on patrol when he ‘stepped on an anti-personnel landmine planted by the Cambodian side’, the Thai army said.