First Minister John Swinney has urged voters in the Hamilton by-election to reject the “gutter politics” of Reform UK as polls open. The vote sparked by the death of Scottish Government minister ...

Charities and school leaders welcomed the change but urged the Government to reconsider the two-child benefit cap to ease poverty levels.

The 42-year-old will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Thursday, facing charges over his alleged conduct towards two Daily ...

Judy Murray is launching an initiative encouraging primary-age girls to participate in competitive sport and to mentor each other.

The FBI has arrested a man on charges linked to last month’s car bombing of a fertility clinic in Palm Springs, California, ...

Reforms “tidying up” pensions by building “megafunds” and sweeping away “micro” retirement pots are contained in a parliamentary Bill. The Pension Schemes Bill will create “bigger and better pension ...

Calls to ban the damaging fishing practice in England’s marine protected areas have been intensifying ahead of a major UN ocean conference ...

It comes a couple of weeks after the UK struck a proposed deal with the EU to reduce the number of post-Brexit checks.

Wicken Fen in Cambridgeshire, which has been looked after by the conservation charity since 1899, has undergone six months of various works.

Novak Djokovic swatted aside Alexander Zverev to become the oldest French Open semi-finalist in 57 years. The 38-year-old was trailing Zverev by a set when the German accidentally swallowed a fly.

Five of JMW Turner’s works are to be auctioned across three sales on the 250th anniversary of the painter’s birth. Born in 1775, Joseph Mallord William Turner was a painter and printmaker during the ...

A museum and national charity wants to raise enough money to secure it for permanent public display in Wakefield, West Yorkshire.