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.

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.

Preet Chandi reached the South Pole in 2022 and now wants to be the first woman to travel solo and unsupported to the North Pole.

The National Trust’s review of the year’s wildlife and weather sees past drought give way to wet, mild conditions in 2024.

The Government will go ahead with a £15 million fund to help get surplus food from farms to homeless shelters, food banks and charities. The scheme to be launched in 2025 will give grants of £20,000 ...

Researchers called for the widespread adoption of services that allow patients to self-refer without a GP consultation.

The Northern Ireland Office (NIO) should have done more to offer protection to murdered solicitor Rosemary Nelson, a top official accepted “in hindsight”, according to newly released documents. Mrs ...