A 17-year-old boy has been sentenced to eight years in detention for the attempted murder of an Irish army chaplain last year. Fr Paul Murphy was stabbed seven times with a hunting knife while ...

The plea was made hours before Israel begins marking its national Memorial Day for fallen soldiers and victims of militant attacks.

Jacob Fearnley fell to defeat against Grigor Dimitrov after their Madrid Open third-round match resumed following Monday’s power-cut. The match was suspended at a crucial stage because of the outage, ...

Helicopters have dropped water on large fires burning on the slopes of South Africa’s Table Mountain as police investigated whether arson was the cause. Table Mountain National Park first reported the ...

A number of traffic lights and road closures are in place as work continues on the Carlisle Southern Link Road (CSLR).

Free-scoring Steven Rigg swept the board at Workington Reds’ end of season awards. The forward capped a prolific campaign by taking home five trophies from the Borough Park presentation evening. Rigg, ...

Nottingham Forest boss Nuno Espirito Santo says the remaining five games of his side’s Premier League campaign are the “biggest of our careers”. Forest are reaching the climax of an impressive season ...

Amir Khan believes Daniel Dubois should keep winding up Oleksandr Usyk to realise his dream of becoming undisputed world heavyweight champion. Dubois has the opportunity to add Usyk’s WBA (Super), WBO ...

Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers are accused of driving from Carlisle to the Northumberland beauty spot in the dead of night to chop down the tree.

“Monty’s Star ran his race at Cheltenham to finish fourth in the Gold Cup and he has come out of the race really well. We don’t have a lot to find with Spillane’s Tower on their running at Punchestown ...

A viral asylum seeker story, which alleged a list of future accommodation sites had been accidentally published, has been refuted by the ...