An entire generation was almost wiped out when 150,000 tonnes of coal waste slid down the hillside before engulfing Pantglas Junior School in 1966.

A 23-year-old man who allegedly assaulted a police officer after Sunday’s Celtic v Hearts game is due to appear in court. The disturbance, which police said took place on Springfield Road after the ...

Two officials from the Myanmar home affairs ministry delivered the materials to the detained former leader on Monday.

An Australian politician is in a critical condition after she was struck by a car in an apparently deliberate act, prime minister Anthony Albanese said. Federal independent legislator Helen Haines, 65 ...

Duncan Ferguson believes he has unfinished business in management after taking over at Irish Premiership club Glentoran.

A TV worker who says she was raped by Russell Brand has insisted she “wasn’t a giddy schoolgirl” during her encounter with the star in a central London bar. The woman claims Brand groped her breasts ...

Mourners have said farewell to author and former Glasgow gangster Paul Ferris at his funeral in Glasgow. The former crime boss died earlier this month at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (QEUH) ...

Students in St Andrews have thrown shaving foam at each other in an annual tradition “for the memories” on Monday at the Fife university. Hundreds of first-year students took to St Salvator’s Quad to ...

The funeral mass for Philip and Kim English and their sons Callum, 12, and Jayden, nine, will take place this afternoon in Waterford. The family was killed in an arson attack on their home in the ...

The PSNI said 300 schools have now reported “receiving the same emailed message which contained a generalised threat” that came from outside the UK ...

A woman who says she was raped by Russell Brand said she was “appalled” when he was rehired as a star presenter by MTV a few years after the alleged attack, a court has heard. Brand, now 51, is ...

English and their sons Callum, 12, and Jayden, nine, died after their home was attacked in Waterford last Tuesday.