SaxaVord on the northernmost inhabited island of Unst is home to the UK’s only licensed ‘vertical launch’ spaceport.

McClenaghan, from Newtownards in Co Down, becomes an MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) a year after he created ...

Ice skating champions Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean said the news of a damehood and knighthood was the “perfect” way to ...

Professor Tara Moore has said it is “lovely” to be recognised for her hard work after being made an Officer of the Order of ...

CANVEY Island striker Calum Newson wants his last-gasp winner against Billericay Town to be a big turning point in the Gulls’ season.

Newly-released files show Downing St officials argued conversations with foreign leaders must remain confidential.

Ian Holloway was delighted to see Swindon exact revenge on Cheltenham by recording a 2-0 away victory. Cheltenham won 1-0 at Swindon when the West Country rivals met earlier in December. But ...

Northern Ireland was on the “cusp of a new beginning” with the return of the Stormont political institutions, officials predicted in 2000. A briefing document among declassified files at the Public ...

Irish civil servants concluded Winston Churchill was “unscrupulous” as they discussed how the crisis over King Edward VIII’s proposed marriage to an American divorcee could be used to the Irish Free ...

An interim report from Operation Kenova found that more lives were probably lost than saved through the operation of agent Stakeknife.

Judges warned in 2004 that demands caused by the use of the Irish language in courts in Northern Ireland had the potential to undermine public confidence in the justice system.

Stevenage boss Alex Revell criticised referee Charles Breakspear after his side let a lead slip in their 2-1 defeat at League One leaders Cardiff. Not only did Revell believe Cardiff’s winner in the ...