POLICE are investigating after a van was set on fire in Galashiels, with officers treating the incident as "wilful".

BACKGROUND reports have been ordered at Selkirk Sheriff Court into a Hawick man who admitted assaulting a woman to her injury.

When Geraldine took A-level art, at Ellesmere Port Girls’ Grammar School, her mum asked the art teacher, Mr Bramwell, if Geraldine would pass and he replied: “If Geraldine doesn’t, nobody else will.” ...

Daniel Ennis is ahead in Dublin Central, while Fine Gael’s Sean Kyne and Independent Ireland’s Noel Thomas are neck-and-neck in Galway West.

New EU border checks at Dover have been suspended as motorists queued for hours amid climbing temperatures at the start of a hot bank holiday weekend. Multiple temperature records could be broken over ...

The state has failed young people in a “shameful” way by “transporting them into the world of benefits”, the leader of a major Government review warned. Former health secretary Alan Milburn said his ...