Artificial intelligence (AI) is being used by the Government to speed up planning applications and benefits claims, newly published records have revealed. Habitats are being charted by Natural England ...

New details and growing shock over emaciated hostages have renewed pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to extend a fragile Gaza ceasefire beyond the first phase ending three weeks ...

The Prime Minister has shown a “heartbreaking” lack of concern for victims of IRA terrorism, a representative group has said. Victims of a range of IRA atrocities expressed “severe disappointment” ...

A man has been arrested after three people were hospitalised in a suspected knife attack that left a Dublin neighbourhood in “a state of shock”. Irish police said they were responding to a “serious ...

Approximately 1,500 premises remain cut off from electricity more than two weeks after Storm Eowyn brought record-breaking winds to Ireland. The National Emergency Co-ordination Group (NECG) met on ...

The MP representing Grangemouth says answers from his Labour colleagues – including the Prime Minister and Chancellor – on saving oil refinery jobs were “underwhelming” and “not good enough”. Brian ...

The withdrawal is part of Israel’s commitments under a tenuous ceasefire deal with Hamas that is moving ahead but faces a major test over whether the sides can negotiate its planned extension. Israel ...

Angela Rayner has denied that delays to local elections are a “stitch-up” after votes in nine council areas due to be held in May were postponed. The Deputy Prime Minister, was asked about the ...

The Church of England is gathering at what has been described as a time of “unprecedented crisis” for the first General Synod since the archbishop of Canterbury’s resignation. Justin Welby’s temporary ...

The Government is planning to digitalise data shared during property sales to tackle hold-ups in transactions and streamline the house-buying process. The changes aim to modernise the “cumbersome” ...

The Mail on Sunday and the Sunday Telegraph report on former health minister Andrew Gwynne who was “sacked for saying a pensioner should die”. MAIL ON SUNDAY: Minister sacked for ‘hope you die’ jibe ...

Reform UK has more than 200,000 members, leader Nigel Farage announced, as he set out the party’s next goal to overtake the membership of the Labour Party. The Clacton MP called his party’s growth ...