London 2012 rowing gold medallist Dame Katherine Grainger has been elected chair of the British Olympic Association (BOA). The 49-year-old, who is also a four-time Olympic silver medallist, becomes ...

The collapse follows several years of declining sales, mounting debts and even a break-in at its Wirral factory last year.

Local government workers have voted to accept a revised offer from council employers after strike action earlier in the autumn, Unison has said. The union said the deal paves the way for talks for ...

The former Tory minister will run for the newly created role of Greater Lincolnshire Mayor in the May local elections.

Tesco Extra in Middlebrook, near the Toughsheet Stadium, has at least seven caravans on site. The Bolton News approached one of the Travellers who said the stay was only planned to be short-term. He ...

Sam Prendergast has been retained at fly-half for Ireland’s autumn finale against Australia. The 21-year-old, who made his maiden Test start in last weekend’s 52-17 win over Fiji, is selected ahead of ...

Nearly 25 million people are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance, according to development minister Anneliese Dodds.

The prosecutions, brought by Northern Rail and TransPennine Express, were declared ‘null and void’ during a hearing at ...

Kevin Sinfield says former Leeds team-mate Rob Burrow will be with him in spirit when he embarks on his latest fundraising challenge in support of the MND community. Burrow lost his battle against ...

Syria’s armed forces said the offensive was led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), which controls much of north-west Syria and is ...

A top Romanian court has asked the official electoral authority to recount and verify all of the ballots cast in the first round of the presidential election. The Constitutional Court in Bucharest ...

Lord Lamont of Lerwick warned that a rival payments system would be a ‘major threat to the Western-led financial system’ if ...