Katie White compared bottom trawling, which is the act of dragging heavy nets across the seabed, with ‘ripping up an orchard to pick an apple’.

Areeba Hamid, joint executive director at Greenpeace UK, said: “Donald Trump has wasted no time paying back the Big Oil backers who helped bankroll his campaign, but shredding climate legislation and ...

New legislation aimed at making school uniform costs more affordable is hoped to be in law by September 2025, the Stormont education minister has said. Paul Givan said his draft School Uniforms Bills ...

Lake Victoria is a firm favourite for the Qipco 1000 Guineas and the Betfred Oaks after being crowned Europe’s champion juvenile filly, but O’Brien is also expecting big things from Fairy Godmother ...

Ifiwerearichman will be heading straight to the Cheltenham for the novices’ handicap chase, trainer Paul Nolan has confirmed. The seven-year-old is hoping to bounce back from a fall at the last fence ...

Marion Atkinson said Southport killer Axel Rudakuban’s guilty pleas had come as a relief to a community ‘still hurting and shocked’.

Novak Djokovic admitted he was concerned about his physical state but his motivation to win an 11th Australian Open title was on full display in a brilliant victory over Carlos Alcaraz.

Cllr Heenan said: “Labour councillors agreed a budget in February 2024, which means that today the council faces a £7.6m overspend with a further nine weeks left in the financial year. "We are less ...

The measures aim to reduce the impact that detonating old unexploded ordnance and installing turbines can have on marine animals.

First Minister Michelle O’Neill and deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly launched the Regional Change Fund on Tuesday.

Warren Gatland believes that people will write Wales off at their peril in this season’s Guinness Six Nations. The form guide suggests another difficult campaign for Wales after collecting the wooden ...

MPs were reminded of the need to be “civil and courteous” to each other as the first formal meeting of the assisted dying committee got off to a tense start. The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) ...