A doctor accused of criticising the war in Ukraine in front of a patient has been jailed for five and a half years after ...

Master George Taft, 65, and deckhand Ian Catterson, 73 died in the incident off Greenock, Inverclyde, in February 2023.

The Health Secretary has said failing hospitals will be named and shamed in league tables and NHS managers sacked if they cannot improve.

Pub group Fuller’s has revealed a £3 million hit from the Budget move to increase employers’ national insurance contributions and joined the growing list of firms warning over price hikes to offset ...

Scrum-half Tomos Williams will miss Wales’ Autumn Nations Series clash against Australia on Sunday. Williams is understood to have suffered a shoulder injury during the 24-19 defeat against Fiji, ...

Scotland’s First Minister has given farmers a “cast-iron” guarantee to return £46 million taken from the agriculture budget to combat the cost-of-living crisis. The cash was taken in 2022 and 2023 as ...

A man who has served more than 35 years in prison for the murder of a woman who was beaten to death when she ran out of petrol has had his conviction referred to the Court of Appeal. Diane Sindall was ...

The Work and Pensions Secretary suggested she wanted to see a 100 take-up of pension credit ‘regardless’ of how it impacted savings plans.

Actor Timothy West, known for many roles in television and the theatre, has died peacefully in his sleep aged 90 “with his friends and family at the end”, his family said.

An Israeli strike on a home in northern Gaza has killed three siblings aged six and under, Palestinian medics said. The children are among at least six people killed in air strikes in the war-ravaged ...

Russian forces have struck Kyiv with a sophisticated missile and drone attack for the first time in 73 days, officials said. Air raid warnings blared for hours as Russia targeted eight regions of ...

Officers received a report of a disturbance at a house on Sceptre Place, in the Elswick area of the city, at 6.30pm on Monday.