The plane crashed while en route from the Azerbaijani capital Baku to the Russian city Grozny in the North Caucasus.

Island Roads will resume its highway improvement activity straight after the Christmas and New Year holidays.

One of the first babies born on Christmas Day in Scotland interrupted her parents’ Christmas Eve movie night after arriving early. Anne-Marie Hunt and Gordon Wilson, of Livingston, were just settling ...

Almost 800 runners, many wearing Father Christmas and elf costumes, crossed the finish line at the landmark Belfast venue.

Police said they believed the suspect was ‘involved in an altercation at a nightclub prior to getting in his car and mounting the pavement’.

Bishop of Dover Rose Hudson-Wilkin is giving the Christmas Day sermon from Canterbury Cathedral (Andrew Matthews/PA) Bishop of Dover Rose Hudson-Wilkin is giving the sermon at Canterbury Cathedral in ...

Migrants have been crossing the English Channel in small boats on Christmas Day. Several boats were seen making the dangerous journey from France on Wednesday morning, with more expected to follow ...

The King attended the royal family’s traditional Christmas Day church service, after a “brutal” year in which he and his daughter-in-law, the Princess of Wales, were both diagnosed with cancer.

Forty-two people are likely to have died in an Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash in the Kazakhstani city of Aktau, Kazakhstan’s emergency ministry has said. The ministry confirmed in a statement on the ...

POPULAR Isle of Wight resident, broadcaster and author, Alan Titchmarsh, will host a special festive programme of music on Classic FM, from Buckingham Palace, to celebrate Christmas Day today. Classic ...

The long-life food items were collected at the Tesco Winter Food Collection from November 25 to 30, at Ryde, Sandown and Ventnor stores.

Sight for Wight celebrates local writing talent with short story competition and stories read by Chesney Hawkes and Joe Pasquale ...