An elderly widower who engaged in sexually explicit online chats with a 14-year-old girl has avoided jail after being shopped by a family member. William ‘Billy’ McCrudden (75) from Belfast ...

The sex worker who admitted lying to police during the trial of a man she falsely accused of raping her will not face prosecution. Lee Haughian was acquitted of the charge and walked free from ...

Suzanne McIlwaine Tue 25 Feb 2025 at 11:00 The recent announcements regarding inheritance tax (IHT) in the 2024 Autumn Budget have had a big impact on the business and farming sectors.

Surviving victims of a loyalist gun attack on a Co Down village pub are set to enter mediation aimed at settling legal actions over alleged security force collusion with the killers, the High ...

Unionists have traditionally been suspicious of Labour’s position on the Union, but they have no need to worry about the current government. Power switching hands at Westminster last year hasn ...

The gap between support for Irish unity and Northern Ireland staying in the UK has narrowed in the past year. A new LucidTalk poll for the Belfast Telegraph shows that 48% of voters would opt to ...

A would-be burglar caught going equipped for theft in the early hours of Christmas Day has been handed a suspended sentence. Officers who stopped George Kincaid as he cycled along the Umgall Road ...

An abusive husband has been convicted of assaulting his wife during a degrading row over a plane ticket before locking himself in a bathroom. Arkadiusz Jaworski (42) berated the victim while ...

In the tight-knit world of Irish League football, some might say Lori Watton is a mini celebrity. The online presenter is front and centre of much of the social media content pumped out by the ...

The PSNI narrowly missed out on seizing tens of thousands of pounds of South East Antrim (SEA) UDA drugs during a major policing operation in Carrickfergus. More than 40 officers from the ...