The Office for National Statistics said retail sales volumes declined by 0.5 in July, compared with the previous month.

A man who killed five people by setting fire to a pachinko parlour in 2009 was hanged on Friday in Japan’s first execution by ...

The British rapper and social media influencer was found guilty of two charges of assault occasioning bodily harm last month.

The fiscal squeeze facing new Chancellor John Healey ahead of his inaugural Budget has been laid bare as official figures showed government borrowing unexpectedly rose to £1.8 billion last month.

Some 31 drivers in the past 30 weeks were charged with criminal offences involving driving in the wrong direction on ...

The 23-year-old reticulated python, named after actress Jodie Foster, underwent electrochemotherapy for a tumour on her jawbone.

The number of UK businesses in “critical financial distress” has jumped by almost a tenth amid particular pressure on leisure firms and hotels, according to research. The downbeat outlook for British ...

Shadow local government secretary Sir James Cleverly said Londoners are facing a ‘Burnham penalty on their council tax’.

The Scottish Parliament will return from recess on August 31. MSPs will be back in Holyrood, committees will reconvene and ...

A QUARANTINE zone for livestock has been put in place in Dumfries and Galloway as a precautionary measure after a case of ...

THE Scottish Government spent close to £100,000 sending officials to the US in June. The expenditure was spent on 16 ...

AROUND 14,000 Glasgow council workers are set to see higher payrates, while 2000 are set to see a pay cut. The decision forms ...