The First Minister said firms destroyed or forced to shut will be assisted, as will those impacted by ongoing access restrictions.

Outgoing BBC director-general Tim Davie has said it “makes sense” for the BBC’s iPlayer streaming service to host content from other public service broadcasters (PSBs).

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Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei said on Thursday that the leverage of closing the Strait of Hormuz should be used and that Iran’s attacks on Gulf Arab neighbours will continue. His ...

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To expect forgiveness from the Winter Paralympic slopes is to be sorely mistaken. The pistes of the Dolomites do not discriminate between Games debutants and veterans who are into their third Games or ...

The UK asylum appeals backlog has almost doubled in a year to hit a new record high, the latest figures show. There were 80,333 cases in the system at the end of December, up from 41,987 at the same ...

Gerry Adams was the “de facto leader” of the IRA, a police intelligence officer has told the High Court. Giving evidence for the civil trial against the former Sinn Fein president, witness B, who ...

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A mother-of-10 who forced a teenage girl to work as a “house slave” for more than 25 years has been jailed for 13 years. Amanda Wixon, 56, subjected the woman to years of abuse at her squalid home in ...

Package holiday firm On the Beach has flagged a sharp drop in people booking trips to destinations including Turkey, Greece and Cyprus following conflict in the Middle East. The travel group said it ...