Unison has recommended local government workers accept the deal, which amounts to a 4% rise this year and 3.5% next year.

The Bill is undergoing a second day of report stage on Friday, with various amendments being debated and possibly voted on.

Baroness O’Loan and Francesca Del Mese have been appointed assessors to the inquiry into the murder of the Belfast solicitor ...

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has warned that Israel should expect “severe punishment” in response, and it was ...

More than 20 police officers have been injured following overnight disorder in Portadown. Officers came under sustained ...

A man has been charged with murdering a 13-month-old boy as well as serious sexual and child cruelty offences. Jamie Varley ...

Several private schools, children who attend them and their parents brought legal action against the Treasury over the move.

Sir Geoff Palmer, one of Scotland’s best-known academics who was the country’s first black professor, has died at the age of ...

The British survivor of the Air India plane crash has spoken of the horror of watching people “dying in front of my eyes”.

The Scottish Conservative leader said Scotland should use its own oil and gas instead of importing fossil fuels from abroad.