There are more levers which could be used to tackle child poverty than scrapping the two-child benefit cap, the Deputy Prime Minister has said as the Scottish Government seeks to mitigate it.

Colin Stonehouse, 36, and David Kirkbride, 28, joined a crowd of protesters who caused damage to a hotel housing asylum seekers in Staffordshire.

Thomas Taylor, 17, was attacked by a group of males at 5.50pm on Wednesday as he walked along Greenhill Street, close to Bedford bus station, officers said. The Bedford Academy st ...

Veronica Wilson spoke to John Swinney about the unsolved killing of her husband Alistair at their home in Nairn in 2004.

Emma Pocknell, prosecuting, said the driver had just delivered a takeaway kebab to an address on Bevan Street West in Lowestoft at around midnight on January 7. As he returned to his van a man had ...

Mr Lynch said he was incredibly proud to have served the RMT both as a rank-and-file member and an elected officer.

Provisional Home Office figures show 547,000 applications were received between April and December 2024, down from 942,500 in the same period ...

A London-based advertising agency is fighting a council's refusal of its bid to install a new digital poster display in Lowestoft.

Quentin Willson, founder of FairCharge and advisory board member of EVUK, said: “The fact that Stellantis has hit their Zev mandate for 2024 shows what we’ve always said – the mandate is achievable.

It comes despite a slowdown in nightclub closures over the past year, with a net reduction of 13 venues in 2024.

Ferocious winds that drove the flames have calmed somewhat and were not expected to be as powerful during the day on Thursday.

The intensity of US President-elect Donald Trump’s rhetoric and his unpredictability can be “destabilising”, Foreign Secretary David Lammy said. Mr Lammy also criticised Elon Musk, a key Trump ally, ...