Ten people have been taken to hospital following a fire in a block of flats in Edinburgh. Fire crews were called to the blaze in a ground floor flat on Niddrie Mill Crescent in the Niddrie area at ...

Foreign Secretary David Lammy said the sanctions ‘build on the UK’s mission to combat Russian malign activity globally’.

The Prince of Wales met volunteers working for the National Seas Rescue Institute (NSRI) to hear about their lifesaving work.

The group is pressing ahead with plans over the next six months to make annual cash savings of around £12 million.

Moves to require large landowners to report on their action to care for nature would help meet legal environmental goals, conservationists argue.

The UK’s second largest supermarket firm said changes to national insurance rules will lead to a £140 million cost increase.

Prosecutors are considering whether to bring charges against former BBC Radio 1 DJ Tim Westwood over allegations of historic sexual abuse. The Metropolitan Police have submitted a “file of evidence” ...

The All Blacks, who knocked Andy Farrell’s men out of last year’s Rugby World Cup, arrive in Dublin on the back of a 24-22 win against England. Here, the PA news agency picks out some of the main ...

Pat McFadden also said comments made in the past about the president-elect by Cabinet ministers will not affect their relationship with him now.

The prison, previously known as Strangeways, was found to be in urgent need of improvement, with ‘catastrophic levels’ of drugs and ...

The president-elect’s second term could steer US diplomacy away from traditional international alliances and towards more populist politicians.

Sir John Nott, the defence secretary during the Falklands War, has died aged 92. The senior Conservative twice offered his resignation to Margaret Thatcher after the Argentinian invasion of the South ...