Zoe Ball: ‘It’s time to step away from the early alarm call’ Zoe Ball has announced she is stepping down as presenter of Radio 2’s Breakfast Show in December. Ball said: “After six incredible years on the Radio 2 Breakfast Show, it’s time for me to step away from the very early mornings and focus…

Manchester United have released a video of head coach Ruben Amorim’s first training session. Here are five clues from it. Source: www.bbc.com…

Russia says Ukraine has fired US-supplied long-range missiles into the country, a day after Washington gave its permission for such attacks. Ukraine used the Army Tactical Missile System (Atacms) in a strike on Russia’s Bryansk region this morning, the ministry of defence in Moscow said. Five missiles were shot down and one damaged, with its…

About 130 schools have shut and several roads are closed after snow fell across parts of Wales. There are three yellow warnings in place for snow and ice across the UK, including Wales. Snow left one road impassable and collisions on two others roads, with schools across mid and north-east Wales shut on Tuesday morning.…

Ukraine’s President Zelensky urged Europe to “push Russia harder” in a speech marking 1,000 days since Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of the country. “The more time he [Putin] has, the worse the conditions become,” he told a special session of the European Parliament on Tuesday. Zelensky spoke amid speculation that Ukraine had for…

PA Media Gordon Lyons said £17m had been found in Stormont’s latest monitoring round allowing help to households affected by the cut. Pensioners in Northern Ireland affected by cuts to winter fuel support are to get a one-off £100 payment from Stormont, Gordon Lyons has said. In August, the UK Government said winter fuel payments…

The reports suggest the lure of money – with 40 £1m-a-season contracts reportedly on offer for marquee players – and greater periods of rest, will attract big names. The English Premiership currently has an 18-round regular season, with post-season play-offs and European action adding to player schedules. The French Top 14 has even higher demands…

A man who drove four teenagers on a revenge mission that led to two best friends being murdered has been handed two life sentences. Mason Rist, 15, and Max Dixon, 16, died after being stabbed by four teenagers in a frenzied attack outside Mason’s home on Ilminster Avenue in Knowle West, Bristol, on 27 January.…

Vladimir Putin has approved changes to Russia’s nuclear doctrine, setting out new conditions under which the country would consider using its arsenal. The doctrine now says an attack from a non-nuclear state, if backed by a nuclear power, will be treated as a joint assault on Russia. The update was proposed in September and rubber…

Getty Images Almost a third of domestic abuse victims in Northern Ireland are male, according to a Stormont strategy document More than half of men in Northern Ireland who suffer domestic abuse from a partner do not disclose it. That is according to a major new study by Queen’s University Belfast and Northern Ireland’s commissioner…