Scottish police are thought to be on notice for a visit by the US vice president, who is on holiday in the UK with his family.

“In Britain and across Europe, free speech, I fear, is in retreat,” the vice president said at the time. In the White House earlier this year, Mr Vance said he knew of “infringements on free speech ...

Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Harris said Ireland was not alone in wanting to ban trade with the occupied Palestinian territories.

Stargazers have already been treated to one rare planetary parade this year, when Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune could all be seen in the sky at once in January. Then, in February, ...

Officers at an address in Brierley Hill seized a BMW 3 series that is reported to have been stolen and cloned, and three men were detained after being arrested at different locations.

A bid to have the sentence of a teenage boy who killed elderly dog walker Bhim Kohli increased is due to be heard at the Court of Appeal on Wednesday.

“On Friday at around lunchtime, there was a small rockfall in the Loom area (back of the Giant’s Causeway) in Port Noffer,” they said. “As a dynamic site, rockfalls do occasionally occur at the World ...

We need to recall Parliament immediately to hold the UK Government to account’, Green Party MP Ellie Chowns said.

The region’s four mayors said payments worth £1.3m made to boss Nicola Shaw via an offshore parent company were a ...

Scottish First Minister John Swinney has praised the work done by Sir Chris Hoy to raise awareness of prostate cancer following a meeting at Bute House. The champion cyclist, along with his wife Lady ...

The last of 72,000 homes which lost power during Storm Floris have been reconnected after five days. Power network Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) said the storm was “exceptional” ...

The fashion chain is to close a raft of high street stores after a court judge approved its restructuring plan.