The Scottish Government’s devolved version of the winter fuel payment will match the value of the UK benefit, John Swinney has announced. Chancellor Rachel Reeves confirmed last week that the payment ...

Research indicates that almost 800 babies were buried in a sewerage system at the St Mary’s home in Tuam, Co Galway between 1925 and 1961.

The latest arrests include a man, aged in his 20s, who has been detained in relation to an arson attack on Larne Leisure Centre.

Cllr Craig ap Iago, the council’s cabinet member for environment, and the former cabinet member for housing, said they had to tackle ...

The search for a person who fell overboard from a ferry in the Firth of Clyde has been suspended, the coastguard said. A major search was launched after the alarm was raised on Sunday afternoon, with ...

A sheriff has noted former Scotland rugby union captain Stuart Hogg’s “complete compliance” with a community payback order, as he said no further review would take place.

Michaela Boor, 30, died in March 2018 after she was hit by the bricks that fell from a tower crane as she walked along a pavement in Bethnal Green.

Cole Cooper’s body was found in a wooded area of Banknock, Falkirk, with police treating his death as unexplained.

The world is “on the brink” of extraordinary destabilisation in the Middle East, Ireland’s deputy premier has said. It comes as the EU Foreign Affairs Council has called an emergency meeting to ...

Israel’s military claimed on Monday to have achieved “aerial superiority” over Iran’s capital. The military says it has degraded Iranian air defences and missile systems to the point that its planes ...