More than 1,100 official files at the Public Record Office in Belfast have been opened to the public under the 20-year rule.

Any review of the early years of the Stormont political institutions had to focus on the lack of paramilitary decommissioning, former Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble warned the UK Government in ...

SaxaVord on the northernmost inhabited island of Unst is home to the UK’s only licensed ‘vertical launch’ spaceport.

Newly-released files show Downing St officials argued conversations with foreign leaders must remain confidential.

Newly-released files show Downing Street apologised after PM’s telegram was addressed in an ‘improper manner’.

Gerry Adams said his party was ‘deeply concerned’ about proposed new laws to tackle anti-social behaviour in 2004.

MI5 blocked an appeal by Irish prime minister Bertie Ahern for the UK to share intelligence on any terrorist threat to the Sellafield nuclear facility, according to newly-released government files.

Initiatives to calm interface tensions in Belfast through the use of shared phone networks were frustrated when participants turned off their mobiles during riots, declassified files from 2002 have ...

Scottish Tory leader Russell Findlay has said he is “not holding my breath” on achieving a budget deal with the Scottish Government. The key ask of the party, he told the Press Association, is the ...

A meeting at Stormont discussed using terrorism laws to tackle displays of paramilitary flags and murals in 2004, declassified files have shown. The papers reveal that a senior PSNI officer stated ...

An interim report from Operation Kenova found that more lives were probably lost than saved through the operation of agent Stakeknife.

The actor said there is a lack of real debate on social media these days and instead people are just ‘screaming’ at each other.