Tanaiste Simon Harris and Taoiseach Micheal Martin speaking to the media at a press conference (Niall Carson/PA) Ireland’s ...

The curriculum and assessment review is due to set out its recommendations for young people who do not secure a decent pass in the autumn.

A Thurso teenager who assaulted a fellow reveller at a local nightclub has been placed on a structured deferred sentence.

Sir Lenny Henry has said the TV industry is “still struggling” to cater for black people when it comes to make up and hair.

Liza Minenko, 16, fled Ukraine in 2022 with her family after spending two weeks in a basement in Kyiv after the war broke out.

Some of the county’s biggest chains have signed a letter to the Chancellor sent by trade body British Retail Consortium.

A cannonball recovered from the battlefield at Culloden has sold for almost £19,000 at auction. The cannonball, engraved with the words “Ogilvy Culloden 16 April 1746”, had been expected to sell for ...

An experienced skydiver deliberately fell to her death from 15,500ft the day after her relationship ended, an inquest heard.

Tuna Lokman, who came to the UK when he was 10, says his dream is to get into Oxford or Cambridge to study maths or data science.

Official figures released on Thursday showed that UK state borrowing slowed to £1.1 billion in July, providing some relief for the Chancellor.

The boy filmed himself wandering the corridors, including footage showing him superimposing a hand carrying a semi-automatic pistol.

It’s a really enjoyable place to be at the moment,” Wick goalkeeper Lewis Gallacher said after an encouraging run of form in the Highland League.