Tennis superstar Naomi Osaka was among several star-studded names celebrated at the 2025 Tennis Black List Awards. Japan's Osaka is the first Asian player to hold the top ranking in singles and has ...

Thirty-year veteran umpire Veronica Mwondela was among those honoured as part of the Tennis Black List 2025. Mwondela, 65, has been a key figure in tennis officiating ever since joining the British ...

American tennis legend Arthur Ashe was one of several star-studded names honoured at the 2025 Tennis Black List Awards.

Foster4 is a pioneering foster carer recruitment service. A collaborative project, recruiting foster carers on behalf of eight Cheshire ...

It comes as the latest update of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography has added biographies of 238 people who ‘left their mark’ on the UK and who died in 2021. Kevin Billington (1934 – 2021), a ...

An Australian man has been shot dead and a second Australian tourist suffered injuries at a villa on the Indonesian tourist island of Bali, police said. Police Chief Arif Batubara said the shooting on ...

Watson, who has LMNA congenital muscular dystrophy, is being made an MBE for services to charitable fundraising.

Norman Irwin served in North Africa in the Second World War and later set up a number of clubs in his home town of Coleraine.

More than 900 people crossed the Channel in small boats on Friday, according to Government figures. Data from the Home Office indicated 919 people made the journey in 14 boats on June 13, taking the ...

Iran has launched retaliatory missile and drone strikes on Israel, killing at least three people and wounding dozens, after a series of Israeli attacks on the heart of Tehran’s nuclear programme and ...

More than 30,000 lightning strikes were recorded overnight as powerful thunderstorms swept across the UK. The Met Office said the “vast majority” of the lightning struck over the sea, but torrential ...

The “non-negotiable” protections that Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall is to include in the Welfare Reform Bill are understood to include a guarantee that those who no longer qualify for ...