A 25-year-old “savagely” slit his mother’s throat with a pruning knife before he called 999 and admitted killing her, a court ...

The UK Government announced in the summer that winter fuel payment would no longer be universal, scuppering Scottish ...

Storm Bert continued to cause disruption across the UK on Monday, with severe flooding in areas of Wales and Northamptonshire ...

Cabinet Office minister Pat McFadden said Russia had stepped up its cyber attacks on Ukraine and its allies over the past ...

A school has been given permission to continue using outdoor lights, which neighbours describe as being like the Blackpool ...

Media personality Christine Hamilton said Storm Bert has brought the worst flooding in two decades after her kitchen was ...

The Taoiseach said he hoped voters would not judge him on the basis of a criticised encounter with a disability care worker ...

Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle led tributes to Lord Prescott, who died last week, calling him a ‘towering figure in the Labour movement and in this House’.

A historic fort in line for a major transformation – including new hotels, restaurants and laboratories – has now hit the ...

The band, known for hits such as Me and Mary Jane, White Trash Millionaire, Blame It on the Boom Boom and Lonesome Train, ...

Acclaimed Scottish actor Brian Cox has backed calls for Scotland to be declared the world’s first “rewilding nation”. The Succession star is urging people to support the Scottish Rewilding Alliance’s ...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves said she was ‘not immune’ to the difficulties facing businesses but there was no alternative to her Budget tax raid.