Northern Scotland is expected to be hit with snow on New Year’s Day, as organisers of the cancelled Hogmanay event in Edinburgh branded this week “challenging”. The Met Office’s yellow warning that ...

A software engineer has completed his year-long challenge of doing 300 press-ups every day in memory of his mother who had multiple sclerosis (MS), raising more than £10,000 for charity.

A 32-year-old man was arrested after one officer died and another was seriously injured in the incident in the South Island city of Nelson.