Shadow ministers raised research from the Institute of Directors’ Economic Confidence Index, which measures business leader optimism.

People are being asked to share ideas on how active travel routes into, and around, the Yorkshire Dales National Park could be created or improved.

Israel’s foreign minister has confirmed that Israeli troops in Gaza have killed Hamas’s top leader Yahya Sinwar, a chief architect of last year’s attack on Israel that sparked the war.

A 90-year-old man from County Durham became the oldest person to climb the mast of the Cutty Sark - only to break his hip in a freak stumble hours later. Kelso Yuill of Witton le Wear, near Bishop ...

The number of people dying in or after police custody in England and Wales has been described as “extremely concerning” as figures show more than half had mental health problems. The Independent ...

A man and two women have been remanded in custody over the death of a 23-month-old child in Co Tyrone. Tavia Da Costa is believed to have died on Sunday just weeks before her second birthday.

The Social Security Advisory Committee admonished the Government for not providing an impact assessment of its plan to scrap the universal payment.