Growth in the UK’s services sector rebounded last month with business activity picking up, but firms face a “short-lived” recovery amid surging costs and lower demand linked to war in the Middle East, ...

A teenage boy, a man and a woman have been arrested by police investigating an attempted car bomb attempt on Lurgan police station. The dissident republican group the New IRA claimed responsibility ...

The SNP is set to “gobble up” constituency seats at Holyrood but the “odds are against” John Swinney’s party winning an ...

Pat McFadden said the impact of the continued closure of the Strait of Hormuz could feed through to the UK labour market.

Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi has told his Iranian counterpart Abbas Araghchi that China is “deeply distressed” over the war that has lasted more than two months and said a “comprehensive ceasefire ...

The boss of B&Q owner Kingfisher has announced plans to step down after nearly seven years to head up Netherlands-headquartered ​supermarket group Ahold Delhaize. Thierry Garnier’s exact departure ...

Russia has fired dozens of drones at Ukraine in night-time attacks, Ukrainian officials said, disregarding a unilateral ceasefire announced by Kyiv that began at midnight.

The Green leader faced calls from his political opponents to ‘come clean’ and correct the record about the claim.

The Andes virus, which has been identified as the variant behind the outbreak, is “known very rarely to spread between people with close contact”, Sir Andrew said. “It means it is very easy to isolate ...

AN abuser told his ex-wife that he would kill her with a knife if he found out she was seeing someone else.

THIS week around 1,000 young people in Inverclyde will have their say for the first time on who should run the country.

It came as the firm, which has 794 managed pubs and 21 franchise sites, revealed slower sales growth over the latest quarter.