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A mass brawl involving 14 people has left shoppers horrified on a busy Swindon high street. On Boxing Day, December 26, at around 2:30pm, more than a dozen people broke into a fight on Regent Street.

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

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

Northern Ireland was on the “cusp of a new beginning” with the return of the Stormont political institutions, officials predicted in 2000. A briefing document among declassified files at the Public ...

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 ...

Mervyn Kersh, 101, from Cockfosters, north London, is being honoured for his school talks on Holocaust remembrance and his wartime service.

McClenaghan, from Newtownards in Co Down, becomes an MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) a year after he created ...

Luther star Idris Elba has been knighted in the New Year Honours. The 53-year-old actor, who is best known for his role as DCI John Luther in the BBC crime series, has been honoured for his services ...