A 48-year-old man who is alleged to be one of eight males who attacked a woman who was allegedly held against her will in an apartment in Dublin has been refused bail.

Education Minister Erica Stanford says help is on the way for teenagers struggling to pass new NCEA maths, reading and writing tests.

Police say both the suspects nominated in the FIR have been arrested.

The family says their son wasn’t given the choice to opt out of the service, and they feel religion was imposed on him in a public school.

Roger Cartwright, who was diagnosed in 2012, thought the letter from Buckingham Palace "was a call-up to fight Putin."

Next term Erica Stanford will be announcing new support for those who "are still not getting there".

Jamie Grierson, accused of stealing cameras from the New County Hotel, said he had to halt work due to unhygienic conditions.

This is the moment boastful drug dealer Shahen Ahmed compared himself to Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar before being jailed for running drugs in London.

The bodies of tech tycoon Mike Lynch and his daughter Hannah were among those inside the shipwreck.

The race to become the new cabinet secretary has officially begun after Simon Case, who has held the £200,000-a-year role since 2020, confirmed he is quitting.

Jay Cartmell tragically died in Warcop

Catherine O'Sullivan, whose 23-year-old son vanished after a house party in Hotwells, Bristol, on March 2, has faced a long battle to get her son's phone records released.

Beauty therapist Elly Brosch, 27, fears she will be scarred for life after being glassed by a gang of women on a night out in Maidstone, Kent. One shard narrowly missing a major vein.

Edgaras Kondratas failed to spot Sylvia Bentley and backed his Mercedes Sprinter van into the woman as she walked home in Weymouth, Dorset, and she sustained "catastrophic" injuries

Akim Nicholson, aged 35, from Tyseley, laughed and gave the jury a thumbs up after they delivered their verdicts

Aamer Anwar gave evidence as the inquiry restarted in Edinburgh.

The disgraced music mogul, 54, faces a barrage of explosive new claims in a civil lawsuit brought by more than 100 alleged victims, lawyers say.

Seven elderly residents all died in March or April 2021 having contracted coronavirus at Holmesley Care Home in Sidford, Devon

He said he believed the virus was 'a conspiracy'

Benn Berkeley, 38, was forced to reconsider his living situation during the pandemic

Boris Johnson's Number 10 communications director told LBC the ex-PM is 'done' with politics and admitted an invasion into the Netherlands for vaccines was 'a mad plan'.