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 company also traded as Your Holidays, Great Little Escapes, Tunisia First and offered trips to the Caribbean and Maldives ...

Members of Cockermouth Mountain Rescue Team have marked the anniversary of a tragic accident which saw two members lose their lives during a rescue.

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

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.

Air fryers, coffee machines and doorbells connected to your phone could be gathering “too much” of your personal information for ...

Hundreds of people came together to celebrate Kendal Pride. The annual event, billed as ‘pride done differently’, took over the town for its third year from Friday to Sunday with activities and events ...

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.

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 ...

Air India said the New Delhi-bound plane landed in Hong Kong safely and was undergoing checks ‘as a matter of abundant precaution’.

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 ...