The year has not been short of dramatic events and developments, and here the PA news agency provides a month by month look back on 2024.

The Royal Mint has unveiled five new commemorative coins as part of it's 2025 annual set including a Red Arrows 50p and Queen Mother £5 design.

LET’S be honest, the last Christmas present National readers were expecting this year was a combination of opinion polls showing a surge ...

Carswell, known as Kari Anderson in her playing days, has been in post for just nine months after time spent working in New Zealand and then as head of women’s cricket at Middlesex.

Croatia’s left-leaning president is running for re-election this weekend against an array of contenders, including the candidate backed by the conservative government. An outspoken critic of Western ...

THE notion that the ideals and policies of the left are not election winners is the battle cry of centrists, those eminently sensible people ...

THE UK Government has admitted food exports from farming to the EU have plummeted by 20 in real terms since Brexit.

Combs is in jail in New York awaiting a criminal trial on federal sex trafficking charges. He also faces a wave of sexual assault lawsuits, many of which were filed by the plaintiff’s lawyer, Tony ...

Wellies, sequins and beer dominated the consumer year of washout weather, touring pop megastars and national sporting celebrations.

The UK does not “make as much use of open prisons” as it could, a former Conservative justice minister has suggested. David Gauke, who is leading the Government’s sentencing review, also told the ...

Aviation experts have said that Russian air defence fire was probably responsible for the Azerbaijani plane crash that killed 38 people and left all 29 survivors injured. Azerbaijan Airlines’ Embraer ...

Two sailors taking part in the Sydney to Hobart yacht race have died at sea amid wild weather conditions. The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia (CYCA) in Sydney, which administers the race, said that a ...