Nicola Sturgeon spoke of feeling she had ‘failed’ when she did not win the constituency she stood in at the first Scottish Parliament election.

Scottish police are thought to be on notice for a visit by the US vice president, who is on holiday in the UK with his family.

The leader of Warwickshire County Council has urged people to act in a peaceful manner at protests in Nuneaton on Saturday.

The fire is burning just south of Lake Piru, a reservoir in the Los Padres National Forest. It is close by Lake Castaic, a popular recreation area burned by the Hughes Fire in January. That fire ...

A person has been hit by a train with London rail lines closed by the emergency services, and live updates here.

“On Friday at around lunchtime, there was a small rockfall in the Loom area (back of the Giant’s Causeway) in Port Noffer,” they said. “As a dynamic site, rockfalls do occasionally occur at the World ...

The region’s four mayors said payments worth £1.3m made to boss Nicola Shaw via an offshore parent company were a ...

We need to recall Parliament immediately to hold the UK Government to account’, Green Party MP Ellie Chowns said.

Scottish First Minister John Swinney has praised the work done by Sir Chris Hoy to raise awareness of prostate cancer following a meeting at Bute House. The champion cyclist, along with his wife Lady ...

The last of 72,000 homes which lost power during Storm Floris have been reconnected after five days. Power network Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) said the storm was “exceptional” ...

The fashion chain is to close a raft of high street stores after a court judge approved its restructuring plan.

A half-naked man in a “mental health” crisis has been beaten up by passengers on the District line near East Ham station.