The Scottish First Minister John Swinney hit out at the UK Government ‘damaging’ decision to means-test the benefit.

Tim Wafer was giving evidence to the Scottish Hospitals Inquiry on the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital campus in Glasgow.

Eve Higgins insists Ireland are itching to end their WXV 1 campaign on a high as they bid to prove their stunning win over New Zealand was no fluke.

Four children were hurt when a double-decker bus crashed and ended up on its side in a rural road in Co Down on Monday.

Difference of ideas, or ways of expressing them, is ‘increasingly seen as a threat’, the vice-chancellor has suggested.

Dr Jim McCormack was said to have made the remark two years before Letby was eventually arrested, the inquiry at Liverpool Town Hall heard.

Alexander and Diana Darwall are challenging an earlier ruling which said that members of the public have the right to wild camp in the national park.

The jury in the trial of a schoolgirl accused of attempting to murder two teachers and another pupil at a school in South Wales has been sent home for the day.

Pakistani police have charged the country’s imprisoned former prime minister, Imran Khan, with attempted murder, over the death of a policeman during violent protests last weekend by his supporters, ...

The Government defeated a Commons motion as the Tories said removal of VAT exemption and business rates relief for private schools ...