Singer Olly Alexander has said he “knew” he would not win the Eurovision Song Contest when he competed for the UK last year.

Actor James Nesbitt has said he was “honoured” to receive a companionship from Sir Paul McCartney at a Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA) graduation ceremony.

The suspect, a 42-year-old man from Bedfordshire, boarded a flight out of the UK in the early hours of Tuesday morning.

The First Minister said the US President made his views clear during their dinner but did not press him to back new drilling.

The US president promoting Scotland is a “good thing” regardless of his politics, the leader of Scottish Labour has said. Anas Sarwar has been consistently outspoken about Donald Trump, accusing him ...

A gunman who killed four people at a Manhattan office building was trying to target the headquarters of the National Football League (NFL) but took the wrong lift, according to New York City mayor ...

Indie band The Wombats, who met while studying at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, were also honoured.

Ronan Hughes was jailed for 20 years in 2021 for the manslaughter of 39 Vietnamese nationals found in a vehicle in Essex in October 2019.

The International Monetary Fund said ‘front-loading’ had ‘shaped economic activity in the first half of the year’.

Leo was mobbed by hundreds of influencers, their mobile phones hoisted high to stream the encounter, when he arrived at St Peter’s Basilica.

The England Women’s football team have lifted their European Championships trophy outside Buckingham Palace as thousands joined in the celebrations of their dramatic victory.

The impact of fewer releases was partly offset by the success of major films including Paddington In Peru and Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy.