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Most pubs generally close between 23:00 and 01:00 during the week, but some are permitted to open later. Other have extended ...

Relive the UK Championship final as Mark Selby survives a fine Judd Trump fightback to win his third title in York.

The first game of the World Cup will be co-hosts Mexico v South Africa. That was the same opening game in 2010 when South ...

A man thought to have been the last surviving member of the RAF's elite World War Two Pathfinder squadrons has died at the ...

The "critical role" played by the UK's first offshore wind farm has been celebrated 25 years after it was built. The first ...

BBC World Service’s global news programme Newsday will establish a team in Kenya, co-presenting from London and Nairobi, while our leading Africa-focused news podcast Focus on Africa will relocate ...

The record for the tallest ever Christmas tree belongs to a tree put up in Seattle in the US at Northgate Shopping Center in 1950. That tree, which was not bedded into the ground as Cragside's is, was ...

A giant redwood growing at a National Trust property has been officially declared the world's tallest living Christmas tree ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addresses the Irish parliament on first official visit to the Republic of Ireland.

A British athlete crowned world's strongest woman says she was "robbed" of her winning moment after it emerged the original champion was a transgender woman who was ineligible to compete.

Defending champion Judd Trump reached his fifth UK Championship final with a comfortable 6-3 victory over Neil Robertson in ...