Thursday’s base rate reduction by the Bank of England would help boost housing market activity, property experts said.

On May 8 1945 the nation celebrated Victory in Europe (VE) Day, as church bells rang out across the country and people gathered to revel in the end of hostilities, and crowds famously gathered outside ...

A GLOBAL home furnishing giant is set for a debut opening in York. City of York Council has approved an application for proposed IKEA signage above a retail unit in Stirling Road – “featuring the ...

Charity Open Seas made the allegation more than a year after a decision in its favour at the Court of Session in Edinburgh.

Haybe Cabdiraxmaan Nur spoke only to confirm his name, date-of-birth and claim he did not know his address during a hearing before a district judge.

The Monetary Policy Committee voted by a majority of 5-4 to cut interest rates to 4.25%. The Bank also predicted that the UK economy will grow by 1% this year, upgrading its previous 0.75% forecast on ...

Denmark has said it will summon the top US diplomat in the country for an explanation following a Wall Street Journal report about the United States stepping up intelligence gathering on Greenland, a ...

Hazel Kaye, who turns 99 in September, met Moore while entertaining troops working for the Entertainments National Service Association.

The jury in the trial of two former friends accused of chopping down the Sycamore Gap tree has been sent out to start deliberations. Groundworker Daniel Graham, 39, and mechanic Adam Carruthers, 32, ...

A former Britain’s Got Talent finalist who landed a lucrative record deal with Simon Cowell has been cleared of raping two women. Andrew Johnston, 30, who competed as a singer on the television ...

Pilot Officer William McMullen was captaining a training flight in a Lancaster Bomber on January 13 1945 when the plane caught fire above Darlington.

The GMB, Unite and Unison unions said 80% of members backed strikes while 94% backed industrial action short of strikes in a consultative ballot to be followed by a formal vote, with the figures an ...