Contractors are “on standby” to remove a loyalist bonfire in south Belfast which has sparked concern, a Sinn Fein MLA has said. Legal action is also understood to be planned against the towering pyre ...

A former PE teacher has appeared in court charged with 13 sexual offences against three children. Bronwen James, 29, of Chippenham, Wiltshire, appeared at Salisbury Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday ...

A former employee at a Fife children’s home has told the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry (SCAI) that allegations of abuse made against him by former residents are “absolute nonsense”.