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Image copyright PAcemaker Image caption A bonfire on the Sandy Row was smaller than it was in previous years Bonfires have been lit...

Image caption Kirsty Wark is among those joining the online book festival events The Borders Book Festival has started an online edi...

Image caption “Devolution has gone so much further” than some people thought it would, according to Mark Reckless, the Brexit Party’s ...

The British Film Institute competition winners will have their two-minute long TV shows aired on national television. Children from across...

Image caption This choir has been able to start rehearsing again – in the conductor’s garden As evening sunshine ripples through a r...

Image copyright SPL Some parts of England will run out of water within the next 20 years unless “urgent action” is taken. That’s the ...

Image copyright Creative Commons Queen’s University of Belfast (QUB) has offered guaranteed places to about 2,500 Northern Irish stude...

Image copyright Getty Images Wearing face coverings in shops is now compulsory in Scotland, with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon hoping...

Image copyright David Hepburn Image caption Dr David Hepburn returned to work after having Covid-19 to find it looked very different ...

Image caption Dr Akhtar connects via video link from his home in Essex From his laptop at his home just outside London, Dr Tahir Akh...

A selection of the week’s best photos from across the continent and beyond: Image copyright AFP Image caption Young dancers stretch ...

The PM ruled our extending the job retention scheme beyond October, saying it left people in “suspended animation”. Boris Johnson told the...

Imagine being a teenager and finding Stormzy in your house when you get home from school. That’s what happened to 15-year-old Ishae from C...

The border between New South Wales and Victoria in Australia has been closed to prevent the spread of Covid-19. The cities of Albury and W...

Image copyright mrwoodbery Image caption Olalekan Jacob Ponle, known as “mrwoodbery” to his Instagram followers, flaunted his wealth ...

Image copyright Reuters Image caption FBI Director Christopher Wray, pictured in February, described a wide-ranging campaign by the C...

Image copyright Getty Images/Hulton Archive Image caption While in Brussels, Charlotte (left) and Emily Bronte would walk to the neig...

Image copyright AFP Image caption Hundreds of civilians were killed before a ceasefire was agreed in March Syrian pro-government fo...

Image copyright Courtesy KCOH Image caption Dre Barnes says ‘let them know you have passion’ The killing of George Floyd in Minneap...