A US judge has rejected a Trump administration request to unseal transcripts from grand jury investigations of Jeffrey Epstein years ago in Florida. A similar records request is pending in New York.

THE Steve Prescott Bridge was lit up in blue and white this week to mark a special signing for St Helens Town.

India are anxiously awaiting the results of scans on Rishabh Pant’s right foot that could have considerable “consequences” on the fourth Rothesay Test against England.

Metro Bank, in partnership with England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), has today launched its Seeing is Believing campaign, in a bid to close ...

Jack Leach claimed six for 63 as Somerset wrapped up a five-wicket win over Durham inside two days of their Rothesay County Championship Division One clash at Taunton. The visitors, who resumed on ...

Liverpool have completed the signing of striker Hugo Ekitike from Eintracht Frankfurt. A deal was reached between the two clubs on Monday for the 23-year-old to join Arne Slot’s Premier League ...

Marcus Rashford said Barcelona “feels like home” after joining the LaLiga champions on loan as he refused to criticise Manchester United.

A woman and two children who died in a shooting in Co Fermanagh are understood to be a mother and her son and daughter. The mother is aged in her 40s, but the ages of her two children have not yet ...

Warmer summers could help boost growth rates in European peatlands, new research has found. The peatlands, which contain around half of Europe’s soil carbon, need a combination of warm temperatures ...

Dr Kate Searle was speaking at a tribunal considering nurse Sandie Peggie’s claim against NHS Fife over alleged harassment and discrimination.

A doctor has pleaded guilty to giving Matthew Perry ketamine in the month leading up to the Friends star’s overdose death. Dr Salvador Plasencia became the fourth of the five people charged in ...

England fought hard to keep India in check on an attritional opening day of the fourth Test at a gloomy Emirates Old Trafford, with the tourists sweating over a foot injury to Rishabh Pant.