Scottish Labour abstaining in the vote on the Scottish Government’s Budget amounts to the “cheapest” deal on the tax and spending plans since devolution, the leader of the Scottish Conservatives has ...

Conservative Ben Obese-Jecty called for a ban on people convicted of violence against women from running for Parliament, referring to ...

Members of the National Education Union will be asked if they would be willing to take industrial action over the Government’s proposed pay offer.

Irish leaders have indicated they are content with the handling of recent weather as the end of the cold snap is in sight. Temperatures in parts of Ireland plunged to minus 7.5C in the early hours of ...

A “popular, well-liked” teenager was fatally stabbed near a bus station in a town centre, police have said. Thomas Taylor, 17, was attacked by a group of males at 5.50pm on Wednesday as he walked ...

A motorist has been caught driving with their head out of the window “Ace Ventura-style” because the car’s windscreen was blocked by snow. Merseyside Police said this is “simply not acceptable” and ...

Veronica Wilson spoke to John Swinney about the unsolved killing of her husband Alistair at their home in Nairn in 2004.

A judge at the New York Court of Appeals issued a brief order declining to grant a hearing to the US president-elect’s legal team.

Quentin Willson, founder of FairCharge and advisory board member of EVUK, said: “The fact that Stellantis has hit their Zev mandate for 2024 shows what we’ve always said – the mandate is achievable.

The intensity of US President-elect Donald Trump’s rhetoric and his unpredictability can be “destabilising”, Foreign Secretary David Lammy said. Mr Lammy also criticised Elon Musk, a key Trump ally, ...

Actor and comedian Russell Brand has been handed a fine after pleading guilty to speeding. The 49-year-old was caught driving his Mini at 95mph on the M4 on June 16 last year near Slough in Berkshire, ...

The TV presenter said he has lived in Herefordshire for 34 years and noticed that flooding in the area has ‘definitely got worse’.