Everton confirmed that under-18s head coach Leighton Baines and club captain Seamus Coleman would take charge of first-team affairs on an interim basis, starting with Thursday night’s FA Cup tie ...

There are more levers which could be used to tackle child poverty than scrapping the two-child benefit cap, the Deputy Prime Minister has said as the Scottish Government seeks to mitigate it. During a ...

Full Fact has found a widely-shared estimate that a million children have been victims is not reliable, but the true total remains unclear.

Colin Stonehouse, 36, and David Kirkbride, 28, joined a crowd of protesters who caused damage to a hotel housing asylum seekers in Staffordshire.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk is preparing to host a live-streamed chat with a leader of Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany party, amplifying concerns across Europe about potential meddling in ...

Members of the National Education Union will be asked if they would be willing to take industrial action over the Government’s proposed pay offer.

Irish leaders have indicated they are content with the handling of recent weather as the end of the cold snap is in sight. Temperatures in parts of Ireland plunged to minus 7.5C in the early hours of ...

Aston Villa boss Unai Emery says winning the FA Cup is one of his side’s targets this season. Villa are seven-times winners of the famous cup competition but have not lifted the trophy since 1957.

A “popular, well-liked” teenager was fatally stabbed near a bus station in a town centre, police have said. Thomas Taylor, 17, was attacked by a group of males at 5.50pm on Wednesday as he walked ...

Veronica Wilson spoke to John Swinney about the unsolved killing of her husband Alistair at their home in Nairn in 2004.

Police have warned drivers to avoid an important A-road through Wiltshire following a “serious crash”. Emergency services were called to an incident on the A342 Monument Hill at Stert, east of Devizes ...

Ian Holloway has unequivocally ruled out any sale of Swindon Town’s top goalscorer Harry Smith during the January transfer window ...