Elon Musk’s comments about Jess Phillips were “reprehensible”, John Swinney has said, as he suggested rules about foreign donations to UK political parties should be tightened. The First Minister also ...

Professor Alexis Jay wrote a report into sexual exploitation of children in Rotherham, before leading the wide-ranging IICSA probe.

Lord Lebedev’s company London Live was close to selling the London licence to Local TV Ltd, Sky News reported. Local TV is a broadcasting company owned by media entrepreneur David Montgomery. Mr ...

The £186.6 million inquiry, set up in 2015, looked at 15 areas scrutinising institutional responses to child sexual abuse.

France’s former president Nicolas Sarkozy and 11 co-defendants have gone on trial over the alleged illegal financing of his 2007 presidential campaign by the government of then-Libyan leader Muammar ...

Women on gynaecological waiting lists and orthopaedics patients are among those who will be offered treatment privately.

AN ancient mid-winter custom is once again being held in Knutsford. Crosstown Community Orchard is hosting their fourth community wassail on Saturday, January 11 at 4pm. Admission is free and all are ...

Sister Simona Brambilla has been named prefect of the department responsible for all of the Catholic Church’s religious orders.

Austria’s President has tasked far-right Freedom Party leader Herbert Kickl with trying to form a new government. Mr Kickl’s party won Austria’s parliamentary election in September, taking 28.8% of ...

Officers have released CCTV images of two men they wish to speak to after damage was caused by fireworks posted through a letterbox. Sussex Police are seeking to identify the pair as they investigate ...

Sunday was the UK’s coldest night of the winter so far, with a temperature of minus 13.3C recorded in Loch Glascarnoch in the Highlands.

The Office of Rail and Road announced that the amount paid by operators to use the High Speed 1 line for the five years from April should be cut.