OLD man who touched himself sexually on a bus in view of a 14-year-old girl has been jailed for two and a half years. The ...

OLD man has told a court how he was threatened with a kitchen knife when he confronted the man who had stolen more than ...

Former Scotland rugby union captain Stuart Hogg needs to make progress with a supervision order imposed after he admitted abusing his estranged wife over five years, a court has heard. The 32-year-old ...

UK smartphone users will soon be make to make and receive phone calls via satellites under new proposals from Ofcom. The telecoms regulator said it was proposing allowing standard mobile providers and ...

FOUR people were rescued by RNLI crews on Sunday night after lifeboats were dispatched to two separate distress calls. The ...

AN inquest into the deaths of a father and son who were killed by a driver in a hit-and-run has closed. Viscount Mark Harris, acting as coroner, determined that Dean Lowe (48) and his 11-year-old son, ...

THE government’s chief executive has said seven senior civil servant roles have been scrapped since he took on the post resulting in a saving of £1.2 million. In a letter to the Public Accounts ...

A motorcyclist who fell into a huge sinkhole that opened on a Seoul street has been found dead after an overnight search, officials in South Korea’s capital said. The sinkhole, roughly 20 metres wide ...

THE Island experienced a slightly drier February compared with the recent average, newly-released data has shown. Figures from Jersey Met showed a total of 60.4 millimetres of rain were recorded ...

Shell has revealed plans to ramp up cost savings and cut spending as it vowed to “deliver more value with less emissions” despite having last year weakened its carbon reduction pledge. The oil giant ...

RENTERS could get the right to challenge “unlawful” rent increases, under proposed changes lodged today which have been labelled the “biggest overhaul” of residential tenancy legislation in over a ...

Ireland’s deputy premier has held a phone call with the US Secretary of Commerce, a major critic of the trade imbalance between the two countries. Simon Harris described the call with Secretary Howard ...