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

Former Tottenham captain Hugo Lloris is convinced Ange Postecoglou can end his old team’s trophy drought, but has preached patience from both the club and its supporters. Spurs boss Postecoglou ...

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.

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 ...

Hundreds of homes were left without water due to a burst main. Homes across the Polegate area lost their supply on Sunday afternoon after a water main burst in the Dittons Road area. South East Water ...

More than a dozen people are missing after a tourist cruise vessel sank in the Red Sea, officials in Egypt have said. Authorities were searching for 17 people who went missing, the governor of the Red ...

Mohamed Salah revealed the latest on his contract situation ahead of a home match against champions Real Madrid.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 journalist who Barbara Taylor Bradford named as the first Woman of Substance has hailed the late author as someone with “elegance, poise, and steely determination”.