Stricken Thames Water is among five water firms given the provisional go-ahead by the industry watchdog to hike bills further as part of plans allowing suppliers to spend an extra £3.4 billion. Ofwat ...

Britain’s economic growth slowed in the second quarter but a boost from record hot weather and the World Cup helped offset impacts from the Iran war in a better-than-expected performance in June, ...

The owner of a small taxi firm in Banbridge has said it was “getting harder and harder” to operate after it and the only other private taxi company in the town were taken over by FonaCAB this week.

School and college leavers will wake up to their long-awaited A-level grades on Thursday. Hundreds of thousands of students across England, Wales and Northern Ireland are receiving grades to help them ...

A Co Tyrone lawyer is helping to shape the legal industry from the inside out regarding neurodiversity awareness. An ADHD diagnosis explained why Donna McGrath found traditional workplace environments ...

Things can only get better... but maybe not when a mural you don’t like is already up there. The writing was on the wall, and Peter Cunnah’s dismay was obvious. The former pop star had waited a year ...

The two most senior members of Donald Trump’s cabinet, secretary of state Marco Rubio and treasury secretary Scott Bessent, flew out of last month’s Nato summit in Turkey on what was effectively a ...

More details have emerged of an incident in central Belfast which has been linked to a gun attack on the home of a death driver. Martin Olali is on bail in connection with a hit-and-run on the ...

Travis Kelce has spoken publicly for the first time about his wedding to Taylor Swift, calling it the “best night of my life”. The singer and NFL player, both 36, tied the knot at New York’s Madison ...

Polls have opened in the Clacton by-election as Nigel Farage attempts to retain his seat in a highly unusual contest. The Reform UK leader quit as an MP to trigger the by-election in protest at media ...

Workers at a major Co Fermanagh food factory are set to strike for two weeks after talks with management broke down yesterday. Staff at the Pilgrim’s Europe site in Enniskillen who are affiliated with ...