By Karen Dingle This week is Carer’s Week, and I was asked to write about my experience of being a carer. The question is: ...

THE fourth tranche of a scheme which helps Islanders buy their first home has reopened today with £2m of government funding ...

The loved ones of a baby boy wept as his alleged killer appeared in court. Former high school teacher Jamie Varley, 36, is accused of the murder and sexual assault of 13-month-old Preston Davey in ...

A 92-year-old man has pleaded not guilty to the rape and murder of a woman who was found strangled in her home almost 58 years ago. Ryland Headley, of Ipswich, Suffolk, will stand trial at Bristol ...

A man accused of murdering a schoolboy during a 20-minute rampage with a Samurai sword has denied re-enacting the violence during a chat about ‘killing films’ in hospital. Marcus Arduini Monzo, 37, ...

The family of three Britons who were killed in the Air India plane crash are calling on the UK Government to provide more support on the ground in India. Akeel Nanabawa, his wife Hannaa Vorajee and ...

ELIGIBLE Islanders will be invited for a cervical screening test every five years instead of every three years if they have a negative HPV test. The change – which applies from July to those with a ...

Disclosure work is under way in an inquest into the death of a Belfast man whose badly beaten body was discovered in the Republic of Ireland. The body of Thomas Lockard, 34, was found by the side of a ...

Pre-excavation work on the site of a notorious former mother and baby home in Tuam in Co Galway has begun. The preparatory phase, which will last around four weeks, comes ahead of the full-scale ...

A sheriff has noted former Scotland rugby union captain Stuart Hogg’s “complete compliance” with a community payback order, as he said no further review would take place. The 32-year-old pleaded ...

Five further arrests have been made by police investigating disorder in Northern Ireland last week. Police have said the latest arrests include a 25-year-old man who has been detained in connection ...

The search for a person who fell overboard from a ferry in the Firth of Clyde has been suspended, the coastguard said. A major search was launched after the alarm was raised on Sunday afternoon, with ...