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TalkTalk’s rescue takeover comes after a difficult past five years that almost led to the complete collapse of the more than 20-year-old firm.

First Minister John Swinney said he has “nothing to explain” following accusations he misled Holyrood over claims about the UK Government’s pensions reform.

Sue Cleaver has said Victoria Wood would be “over the moon” with a new stage adaptation of beloved sitcom Dinnerladies, which she hailed as “a celebration of her legacy”.

A fresh court challenge is being heard against a decision to permit an Orange Order parade down the predominantly nationalist Garvaghy Road in Portadown.

Manslaughter charges have been dropped against three people over the death of a teenager in a house fire, including her mother and brother.

Hastings Hotels has completed a £550,000 project to revamp its famous Piano Lounge at the Europa Hotel on Belfast’s Great Victoria Street.

The average five-year fixed homeowner mortgage rate on the market has reached the 6% mark for the first time in three years, according to a financial information website.

The house where Beatles star Sir Paul McCartney first learned to play the guitar is up for sale at auction this month.

Garvaghy road residents arrive at court for Drumcree parade appeal

BT has bought struggling broadband provider TalkTalk out of administration for £400 million following fears its collapse could spark a national security threat.

Electric cars have certainly come a long way in the time I have been driving them.

A Saudi-led coalition fighting the Iran-backed Houthi rebels said an air campaign is under way against the rebels in Yemen along the Red Sea coastline.

The director of a roofing firm which collapsed owing its creditors almost £600,000 has been disqualified from running a company for seven years.

Formula One has been urged to take a “hard look” at the regulations following the unprecedented software glitches which overshadowed Sunday’s Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia.

Shadow chancellor Andrew Griffith committed to a “bonfire” of red tape as he set out ambitions to lower taxes and speed up development.

A Conservative government will legislate for new nuclear power in Scotland, the party’s shadow energy security secretary has said, telling ministers in Edinburgh to “bring it on” if they object.

Ukraine said that its long-range strikes have neutralised more than half of Russia’s oil refining capacity, hampering Moscow’s ability to supply its forces during its invasion.

Toyota is harking back to the dawn of the millennium with a one-of-a-kind version of its Aygo city car.

The Nobel Prize in medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for their research into light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.

Growth in the UK’s services industry slowed last month, with firms raising their prices at the fastest pace since May in the face of higher fuel and energy costs, a new survey has shown.

Rowan Atkinson will star in his first West End comedy sketch show in 40 years, marking his return to the theatre after more than a decade.

Alex Scott will miss England’s Nations League fixture with Czechia on Tuesday and could be out for up to two months with a thigh problem.

Gillian Anderson has explained why she asked a group of fans not to sit in the front row of her West End show Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?

Two men have died and two women have been injured in an attempt to cross the English Channel in a small boat.

Lidl has revealed its sales jumped by more than a 10th across its UK stores last year as it got a boost from the “Deluxe” range and attracted millions more shoppers.

Sharon Rooney, who is currently appearing in the new series of Celebrity Traitors, will explore more murder mysteries as she leads new TV drama An Impossible Way To Die.

Historian Dan Jones has been commissioned to write a new James Bond novella to celebrate the National Year of Reading.

(adds final four pars) Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is taking legal action against Thames Valley Police in a bid to quash search warrants which led to his arrest, with a private High Court hearing to take place on Thursday, a judicial spokesperson has said.

BT Group has agreed a rescue deal to buy TalkTalk’s consumer and wholesale businesses out of administration in a move protecting around 900 jobs and telecoms supply to millions of customers and vital public services.

US singer-songwriter Elle King said she had the “best day of my life” as she tied the knot with longtime partner Dan Tooker over the weekend.

A Green Party motion labelling Zionism as racism has been condemned as “poisonous antisemitism” by chief rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis.

Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez has announced early elections after his government suffered a bruising legislative defeat last week on emergency measures related to the country’s housing crisis.

Portugal boss Jorge Jesus has opened the door for Cristiano Ronaldo to resume his international career.

Winter may seem a long way off, especially as the weather remains relatively warm for the time of year, with late-blooming favourites such as dahlias still in flower.

A legend as a player, and the man who eventually led Mayo back to the promised land, Andy Moran is the latest guest to join Cahair O’Kane and Neil Loughran on The Monday Club podcast.

The US Air Force reportedly withdrew all its bombers from RAF Fairford because of new threats against the base in Gloucestershire following a suspected terror plot.

As winter approaches and the days get darker, our bodies are suffering more than we realise.

It’s been a long road for Bhóthar na bhFál (Falls Road).

THE Drumcree dispute is due back before the High Court in Belfast today after an entirely avoidable period of enormous tension and upheaval over the proposed Orange march along the nationalist Garvaghy Road in Portadown entered a second week.

I’M sitting here watching Carla Lockhart, the DUP MP for Upper Bann, at a self-styled community event.

An imposing building once the scene of initiations into one of the world’s most secretive societies has been transformed into a creative space for Belfast’s artists and musicians.

Former Northern Ireland international Niall McGinn believes Michael O’Neill’s young guns are capable of taking over the Kings of Lyon mantle.

Heather Conway still remembers the big country wakes she saw growing up in Co Derry.

AT around 3am on Sunday September 27, bright lights illuminated the residents who were gathered on Garvaghy Road in advance of the Orange Order parade which was notified as leaving Drumcree church at 8am.

A Derry businessman who helped broker contentious parade agreements in the city has said the country is being “held to ransom” by the Orange Order over the Drumcree dispute.

THE struggle between the Central Committee of the Communist Party in Russia and the Opposition appears to be considerably intensifying.

WHILE most people will sympathise over the dilemmas facing Chris Bryant, there is little in his CV which suggests he was ever qualified to take charge of a major political crisis which could result in the permanent collapse of the Stormont power-sharing s…

Ninety-two years ago this month, Walt Disney might well have done a great disservice to apples and step-mothers.

A Co Derry woman has told how her beloved sausage dogs inspired her to swap life as a solicitor to run her own dog bakery.

SUSTAIN X Leadership and sustainability event Sustain X will take place at the ICC Belfast on October 23.