Liverpool could not cope with losing defender Virgil van Dijk should he leave the club in the summer, according to former star John Barnes.

Experts are predicting a rate cut to 4.5 – but signs of rising inflation leave the Bank walking ‘a tightrope’ for future reductions this year.

Chris Hayes paid tribute to the “almost perfect equine athletes” developed by the Aga Khan through generations of breeding, having partnered Ezeliya to the famed owner-breeder’s final Classic success ...

A former ice hockey player and TV extra has been jailed for 28 years for the rape and sexual abuse of seven girls. Victims of Philip Hamer clapped the judge and burst into tears in the public gallery ...

The Irish government was “missing in action” during the clean-up to damage caused by Storm Eowyn, a Social Democrats TD has said. Wicklow TD Jennifer Whitmore said the government can no longer “wash ...