The SNP came “frustratingly close” to winning the Hamilton by-election, First Minister John Swinney has said. Scottish Labour’s Davy Russell won a surprise victory on Thursday, with the SNP coming ...

Some nine million pensioners in England and Wales will receive the winter fuel payment this winter, the Chancellor has announced in a £1.25 billion u-turn of Government plans.

Marcus Arduini Monzo, 37, is on trial accused of murdering schoolboy Daniel Anjorin and attempting to kill four others during a 20-minute rampage in Hainault, north-east London, on April 30 last year.

The partner of wealthy aristocrat Constance Marten has described the prosecution case in their trial over the death of their baby as “like a script from a movie”. Marten, 38, and Mark Gordon, 51, are ...

The Government has a legal obligation to maintain populations of wild birds and ensure they have enough suitable habitats.

A nine-year-old girl has died and an 11-year-old girl is in a critical condition after a fire which also claimed the life of a man. The pair died after the blaze broke out in Heckmondwike, West ...

OLD boy has been arrested on suspicion of intentional strangulation after police were called to a domestic incident in St Helens.

Zulkernain Ahmed, 20, and Armaan Ahmed, 26, also face three counts of attempted murder after a ‘hit-and-run’ incident in Sheffield.

The King has praised a 101-year-old veteran as “amazing” and told him to keep drinking whisky during a visit to Lancashire. Charles met Richard Brock, who served in the D-Day landings, at a reception ...

The announcement comes after lead campaigner Sir Alan Bates said redress schemes had ‘turned into quasi-kangaroo courts’.

A lack of recent meetings between the Scottish Government and the Treasury is an “issue of concern”, First Minister John Swinney has said ahead of the Chancellor’s spending review.

Emma Raducanu has tempered expectations ahead of her Queen’s debut, revealing a back injury that has hampered her grass-court preparations. Women’s tennis is returning to Queen’s for the first time in ...