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.

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 ...

POLICE are appealing for assistance as they look to trace a man reported missing from North Ayrshire. Christopher Bennett was last seen in the Kilwinning Road area of Irvine at around 1.30pm on ...

PICKET lines formed at bus stations in Ayr and Kilmarnock this morning as Stagecoach drivers began their six-week-long strike over pay. It will leave the whole of Ayrshire with a much-reduced service ...

Some nine million pensioners in England and Wales will receive the winter fuel payment this winter, the Chancellor has announced. The payment, worth up to £300, will be restored to the vast majority ...

Pret, which has grown to an estate of 500 sites across the UK, is trialling the new format in Broughty Ferry near Dundee and Maidenhead, Berkshire.

The second of two much-delayed ferries under construction at Ferguson Marine has had another setback after being flooded.

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

Green energy industrialist Dale Vince’s High Court claim against the publisher of the Daily Mail has been thrown out by a judge. Mr Vince brought legal action against Associated Newspapers Limited ...

Russia launched 479 drones at Ukraine in the war’s biggest overnight drone bombardment, the Ukrainian air force said on Monday. Apart from drones, 20 missiles of various types were fired at different ...

Union membership in councils run by Reform has increased since the party took control of local authorities after the May elections, new figures reveal. The GMB said workers were “flocking” to join ...

Around 1,000 doctors have written to MPs urging them to vote against the assisted dying Bill describing it as “simply not safe”. The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill will return to the House ...