Negotiators making a final push to secure the world’s first treaty to combat plastic pollution are being urged to strike an ambitious deal at talks this week. A final round of UN negotiations on a ...

Around three-quarters of the Millennial and Gen-Z generation are determined to reach their goals, according to research for First Direct.

Pakistan suspended mobile and internet services “in areas with security concerns” on Sunday as supporters of imprisoned ...

Football manager Wayne Rooney has hinted at an appearance on I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here after praising the efforts of his wife Coleen Rooney on the show. The 39-year-old called into the ...

Thirteen candidates are vying for the presidency in the European Union and Nato member country with the vote expected to go to a second round.

Uruguayans will return to the polls on Sunday for a second round of voting to choose their next president. The conservative governing party and the left-leaning coalition are locked in a close run-off ...

The Pele Tower, Corbridge is available for exclusive hire from £250 for private Christmas parties and events. It was built in AD1300 for the Vicar of Corbridge and was lived in as a fortified vicarage ...

A farmer-turned-poet has had her first collection published. She celebrated the publication of A Pease Myers Pastoral this week at the Pele Tower in Corbridge. Liz Haynes, who lives in Weardale, ...

TWO community groups in Prudhoe are celebrating funding from the Co-op. Co-op’s Local Community Fund has contributed more than £33,000 which has been shared in and around the area, including ...

PLANS to turn a village’s only pub into two homes have been recommended for approval, despite parish council objection. The change of use application for Hallbankgate’s Belted Will Inn, outside of ...

Energy Secretary Ed Miliband has called a financial package for developing nations a “critical 11th-hour deal at the 11th hour for the climate” as the United Nations environmental conference drew to a ...

Malik kicked off his tour in Leeds’s O2 Academy on Saturday after rescheduling the original opening date in Edinburgh for Payne’s funeral.