Voting in the Irish General Election continued into Friday evening after a quick campaign that focused on the country’s most pressing issues.

Police launched a probe earlier this year after it was reported that a number of men with links to Westminster had received unsolicited messages.

Surrey Police said the incident on June 15 had been thoroughly investigated as both a criminal and internal misconduct matter and had now concluded.

The Met Office has predicted unseasonably warm weather this weekend after recent days saw the third storm of the season, Storm Conall, bring heavy rain and flooding. The forecaster has warned of ...

A swift, three-day trial against Alexei Gorinov, once a low-profile activist, underscored Moscow’s intolerance of any ...

The figures are based on the total number of MPs able to express a preference in the vote, which was 639: 635 who could cast a vote, plus two tellers – or counters – for those MPs in favour (“aye”) ...

Kim Leadbeater describes herself as a “proud Yorkshire woman” and someone who has always been “very driven and determined”. She is the sister of Jo Cox, who was Batley and Spen’s MP until she was ...

John MacKinnon, 47, was murdered by his brother-in-law Finlay MacDonald in a spree of violence on Skye and the Scottish ...

Some MPs have indicated that their continued support at a further vote is contingent on being assured of appropriate safeguards in the Bill. Among them was Conservative grandee Sir David Davis, who ...

More bodies buried under the mud were retrieved in eastern Uganda and an injured person died in a hospital, bringing the ...

Conservative MP Danny Kruger said he was ‘disappointed’ but that the vote was ‘simply to continue the discussion’.

Small parties should get representation on the committee which will scrutinise assisted dying rules, MPs have urged. Liz Saville Roberts, Plaid Cymru Westminster leader, said their implications for ...