The child poverty strategy, originally due to be published this spring, was expected to include a recommendation to scrap the two-child benefit cap.

Richard Satchwell is on trial at Dublin’s Central Criminal Court for the murder of his wife, Tina, in March 2017.

Almost four dozen Venezuelan workers who had temporary protected status have been put on leave by Disney after the US Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to strip them of legal protections.

David Parish, 38, attacked Beryl Purdy with a large golf umbrella he had taken from her porch and inflicted fatal head injuries ...

BARROW AFC new boy Scott Smith is excited to take the next step on his football journey after leaving his boyhood club Wigan Athletic.

ITV has announced it is looking for contestants for a new game show hosted by Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins. They are hoping to find "fun" and "enthusiastic" people for the programme, which is called ...

CUMBRIAN beef, sheep and arable farmer, Alistair Mackintosh, has been appointed as the new chair of Red Tractor - the first farmer to hold the ...

Figures obtained by Full Fact show how the recent rise in the number of in-hospital appointments compares to previous years.

The photographer had suffered from various health problems for many years after contracting malaria in the 1990s.

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from cutting off Harvard’s enrolment of foreign students, an action the Ivy League school decried as unconstitutional retaliation for defying the ...

THE Environment Agency are supporting a café and other businesses in Kendal which are impacted by a new flood scheme.

US singer Billy Joel has announced the cancellation of all his upcoming concerts after being diagnosed with a condition that causes a build-up of fluid in the brain. The Piano Man singer, 76, was due ...