Ireland joins Spain and Slovenia in refusing to compete in or broadcast the competition, while the Netherlands and Iceland have refused to send acts.

Scottish Greens MSP Q Manivannan, elected last week, will apply for a graduate visa, and later a global talent visa.

OPERATIONAL issues have led to missed garden waste collections across parts of Cumbria today. A number of areas in Allerdale were affected on Monday, May 11.

An inquest is due to be opened into the death of a 12-year-old girl from Maryport. Nichaphat 'Lena' Gartland died on April 26, 2026. Her place of death is listed as Whitehaven. The inquest is due to ...

Tom Rutland, a parliamentary private secretary, said the Prime Minister had ‘lost authority’ and should ‘set out a timetable for ...

Joe Morris and Tom Rutland, who served as parliamentary secretaries to Wes Streeting and Emma Reynolds, stood down on Monday.

A POLICE operation targeting anti-social driving was carried out today (Monday, May 11). Officers from the Carlisle and Wigton Neighbourhood Policing Team were out this morning for Operation Colossus, ...

Nicola Sturgeon, crime specialist Professor Sue Black and the Beano are among the big names at this year’s Dundee Book Festival, billed by its organisers as “a celebration of writers and reading”.

Mr Justice Hayden said that the public ‘is entitled to expect far better’ after being told Ifedayo Adeyeye may have travelled to Spain.

Roman Lavrynovych, 22, is accused, along with Stanislav Carpiuc and Petro Pochynok, of arson attacks on property linked to Sir Keir Starmer.

Labour MPs Tom Rutland and Joe Morris have quit their ministerial aide roles and called for Keir Starmer to resign as Prime Minister ...

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