Media personality Christine Hamilton said Storm Bert has brought the worst flooding in two decades after her kitchen was submerged in two inches of water.

Women emerging from humble beginnings to achieve great things was a constant theme in Barbara Taylor Bradford’s novels, echoing her own rise to sparkling literary success, and in 2009 I was honoured ...

At least 17 people are missing after a tourist yacht sank in the Red Sea, Egyptian officials said. The governor of the Red Sea region, Amr Hanafy, said rescuers saved 28 people from the vessel south ...

Jurgen Maier’s comments come after energy secretary Ed Miliband vowed to take on ‘blockers’ of power schemes earlier this year.

A man who identifies himself as James Scott Rhys Anderson said he signed up to fight for Ukraine’s International Legion after losing his job.

A gunman was seen firing directly into a car in a double shooting in which an eight-year-old girl was seriously hurt. The girl, who is in hospital in a stable condition, was shot alongside a ...

The Bank of England should be “vigilant” over a potential economic slowdown in the UK, according to a deputy governor at the Bank. Clare Lombardelli said some recent UK economic data had showed ...

The Taoiseach said he hoped voters would not judge him on the basis of a criticised encounter with a disability care worker in Co Cork.

Bestselling novelist Barbara Taylor Bradford, who wrote A Woman Of Substance, has died at the age of 91, it has been announced. The author died peacefully at her home on Sunday November 24 following a ...

The Welsh Government estimated that the levy could generate up to £33 million a year if all Welsh local authorities introduce it.

Tommy Freeman has revealed that he perfected the outrageous around-the-back pass that lit up England’s rout of Japan in training last week. Freeman gathered a 53rd minute chip from Henry Slade at pace ...