Bridget Phillipson said a Tory amendment to the schools Bill is unnecessary as she defended removing automatic academisation of failing schools.

A panel in the case of a Metropolitan police officer who is alleged to have used the term ‘cotton pickers’ has retired to consider its verdict.

Bradford and Walsall are working with police to identify a social media user over a post which referred to the fire at Valley Parade which claimed the lives of 56 people. Police were called in over a ...

A drug dealer was caught with cannabis worth up to £67,000 in his home during a police raid. Kyle McFarlane, 26, of Loch Street, Townhill, appeared in the dock at Dunfermline Sheriff Court. He ...

Comedian Jayde Adams (left) and Steps star Ian ‘H’ Watkins (second left) arrive for the funeral of The Vivienne in Denbighshire, North Wales (Danny Lawson/PA) Also in attendance was Steps singer Ian ...

Celtic have secured Jota on a five-and-a-half-year contract after the Portuguese winger swapped places with Kyogo Furuhashi. The 25-year-old has completed his move from Rennes 18 months after leaving ...

The funeral of former deputy prime minister John Prescott will take place in Hull on Thursday. More than 300 family, friends and colleagues have been invited to the service at Hull Minster, beginning ...

Adam Jones has backed Warren Gatland to turn Wales’ fortunes around as they head into a Six Nations campaign on the back of 12 successive Test defeats.

From the family of the brilliant Champion Hurdle winner Faugheen, and similarly marked with a white blaze, the six-year-old made quite an impression on her bumper debut at Punchestown in January of ...

First Minister Michelle O’Neill and deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly called on NIE Networks to make goodwill payments to those cut off.

A return to Aintree is top of the agenda for Strong Leader following his fourth-placed finish in the Cleeve Hurdle at Cheltenham on Saturday. Olly Murphy’s star stayer was a decisive winner of the ...

Carers for the Peacocks in Pittencrieff Park are appealing to the public to keep their dogs on a lead, with regular attacks on the iconic birds and even an attack on a squirrel recently reported.