Local authority staff could stage industrial action amid a dispute over a 3% pay offer described by Unison as ‘pitiful’.

The North of Scotland can add some silverware to their cabinet, but not in the manner that anyone would have wanted.

Wera Hobhouse, the Lib Dem MP for Bath, was refused entry to the former British territory while travelling to meet her son and baby grandson.

Aftab Baig, 47, from Glasgow, was part of a fraud which saw bogus claims made against the Leeds branches of the bakery chain.

People living in Birmingham say their health is suffering from the stench of piling waste while “cat-sized” rats raid the mounting rubbish outside their homes. There have been warnings over public ...

In March, British Steel’s Chinese owner, Jingye, announced it would close the remaining furnaces at Scunthorpe, which would lead to the loss of 2,700 jobs. It came months after the closure of Tata ...

Two further people have been charged in connection to damage at US President Donald Trump’s Turnberry golf course. Police Scotland said a 75-year-old man and a 66-year-old woman were arrested ...

David Glover, who was jailed for 20 months in 2023, was given a 15-month suspended sentence after further victims saw his case reported in the news.

A man who seriously injured a teenager by throwing acid in his face has been jailed for more than eight years. Gilson Martins, 23, of Ashton Street in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, planned the attack, ...

A consensus of economists has predicted that Consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation will come in at 2.7% for March.

An Aviemore woman who was caught drunk driving two months after she had been disqualified for a similar offence could be jailed. Katarzyna Urban-Sroka, of Ionad MacAonghais (McInnes Place), appeared ...

The Duke of Sussex’s relationship with the King remains “distant”, with Harry’s letters and calls to his father going unanswered, sources have said. Harry has also been left in the dark about ...