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During a speech, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage said the proportion of people who pay the higher rate of income tax has increased more than five-fold in half a decade.
Mike Farrar, who was made permanent secretary in April, said he is optimistic about the future for the health service in the region.
RTE executives have defended an unfinished newsroom promo which is expected to cost 77,000 euro plus VAT, a committee has heard. The advertisement aims to portray “a day in the life” of three RTE ...
Police were called after Donald Burgess, a wheelchair user, grabbed a knife and threatened to stab staff, jurors heard.
Attempts to tell Heathrow airport’s sleeping chief executive that the airport had been closed because of a power outage failed because his bedside phone was on silent, an inquiry has found. Thomas ...
Crowds of fans flocked to Easter Road stadium to pay their respects to “salt of the Earth” Sir Tom Farmer as his funeral hearse passed by the club he once helped save.
Northern Ireland’s health service is expected to face a £600 million budget shortfall. Stormont Health Minister Mike Nesbitt described financial plans being finalised which will be “unprecedented in ...
A farmhouse on the estate of the former family home of Diana, Princess of Wales has been “burnt down by vandals”, her brother said. Earl Spencer said he was “stunned” to learn that a farmhouse was ...
The new leader of Northern Ireland’s Department of Health says there is potential for the region to have one of the best health systems in the world. Mike Farrar took up the position of permanent ...
The building society suggested that customers were switching from rival banks in order to make use of its branch network.
Mother of Minnie Rae Dunn described allowing her daughter on to the balcony as the ‘biggest mistake of my life’.
A 74-year-old former surgeon who raped hundreds of victims over more than two decades has been given the maximum sentence of 20 years in prison by a French court. Joel Le Scouarnec was found guilty of ...