DCC joins an ever-growing list of FTSE companies to have been bought and taken private in recent months, with Mitie, Rotork, ...

Andy Burnham has signalled he could make it harder to claim benefits, saying the UK must “get really serious” about curbing ...

A woman who went from deciding what festival to go to to looking after a foster child at 28 is recommending other young ...

Neighbours have blasted a historic town hotel’s plans to bring back a basement bar and extend the hours it serves alcohol.

A decision to convert a building once home to a Post Office branch for almost a century into a 33-bed HMO has been labelled ...

A mum has told of her “disgust” after overlooking an eyesore skip for more than a year which will now be removed after ...

After two iconic films, Mean Girls has been transformed into an award-winning stage show and heads to Kent for a limited run.

Plans for a restaurant at a former Pizza Hut have been unveiled as fresh figures reveal more than 90% of a city centre’s ...

Robert Bush, who ran Legacy Independent Funeral Directors, gave grieving families the wrong ashes while their loved ones’ ...

Businessman Sir Ian Wood, the billionaire and philanthropist who ran the Wood Group company based in Aberdeen, has died at the age of 84. One of Scotland’s wealthiest people, who earned his fortune in ...

The emergency services in the Cairngorms had “all resources necessary” to tackle wildfires, the Justice Secretary has said ...

Kent suffered defeat in a first Metro Bank One-Day Cup away match of the summer as they were beaten by six wickets by ...