Starmer challenged by SNP on two-child benefit capThe SNP has tabled an amendment to the King's Speech calling for the two-child benefit cap to be scrapped.The party said the...

The Crues started the second half with intent and levelled the game less than a minute after the restart when Clarke's free-kick from distance was misjudged by stopper McMullan...

A health trust in Northern Ireland is to pay almost £21m to the family of a girl in what is thought to be one of the biggest medical negligence...

Starmer: Labour elected to 'deliver national renewal'Sir Keir Starmer has said his plan for government would "take the brakes off Britain" and put the country on the "path of...

8 minutes agoBy Eleanor Lawson, BBC News, West MidlandsDave WallisThe blaze is at Birmingham's Hastingwood Industrial Park, near the Fort Dunlop retail park and the Esso oil terminalFirefighters are tackling a...

Getty ImagesWhatever the new government chooses to focus on in the King’s Speech, there are some big and immediate challenges it will find hard to ignore.These issues are among...

Airdrieonians struck eight while Hibernian and The Spartans hit five each on a goal-laden second night of Premier Sports Cup group games.Scottish Premiership side Hibs took their tally to...

Australia fly-half James O'Connor has been named in a Queensland Reds side that has 14 players with Super Rugby experience and is playing against a national team for the...

BBCPeople have been advised to avoid the Broadway areaStones, bottles and paint have been thrown at police in the Glenmachan Street area of south Belfast.It is the second consecutive...

32 minutes agoBy Alex Forsyth, Political correspondentReutersLast week England's mayors gathered at Downing Street The way local government works might not sound like the most exciting thing on the government’s long...

18 minutes agoBy Guy Hedgecoe & Jonny Humphries, Lynette Horsburgh, BBC NewsFamily handoutDebbie Duncan says her family are devastated at the "worst news"The death of British teenager Jay Slater in Tenerife is...

46 minutes agoBy Louise Parry, BBC News, HertfordshireMet Police/PASpecialist police officers excavate a barn at Stocking Farm in the search for the body of Muriel McKayA new search has begun for...