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

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 ...

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 ...

A call to redevelop a market garden on the outskirts of Cardigan with up to seven new houses has been submitted to county planners ...

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.

Christopher Bell, 45, left his door open when he came out of his house to run after Ian Langley, 54, who had thrown a stone at his home.

Connections fully expect Potters Charm to rebound at the Cheltenham Festival after an unexpected Trials Day defeat. The six-year-old was contesting the Ais Novices’ Hurdle on Saturday and came into ...

The Prince and Princess of Wales will pay their respects at a service on the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz on Monday.

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 ...

The National Pharmacy Association (NPA) has written to regulators calling for tougher rules to be introduced around sale of weight loss jabs online.

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