A move to end the winter fuel allowance for all pensioners is to be extended to Northern Ireland, Stormont’s Communities Minister Gordon Lyons has confirmed. Mr Lyons said he “strongly disagreed” with ...

The Westminster leader was speaking as the SNP conference begins with a focus on a general election result which saw it win ...

A man pleaded guilty on Friday to killing Baltimore tech entrepreneur Pava LaPere last September in an apparently random attack that shocked the city. Jason Billingsley, 33, entered the guilty plea ...

Eton College will raise fees by 20% as a result of the Government’s removal of the VAT exemption on independent schools, it said in a letter to parents. The £52,749-a-year private boys’ school said ...

Czech explosive experts detonated a Second World War bomb on Friday at a major chemical plant in the north west of the country, where it was found last week, authorities said. Besides a few broken ...

Auchinleck Community Development Initiative (ACDI) operate from the Boswell Centre on Well Road, and offer support to those that need it in ...

According to the NHS, “second-hand smoke is dangerous, especially for children”. It adds: “People who breathe in secondhand smoke regularly are more likely to get the same diseases as smokers, ...

NHS Ayrshire & Arran is working with North Ayrshire Council to create a specialist centre for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service ...

The Scottish Hospitals Inquiry is investigating the construction of the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital campus in Glasgow.

The owner of an alpaca who was culled three years ago has called for the new Labour Government to provide answers about how Geronimo died. Helen Macdonald wants a meeting with Environment Secretary ...

French prosecutors accuse Durov of complicity in allowing drug trafficking and sharing of sexual images of children on ...

Mike Nesbitt started his first tenure as Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) leader by declaring he wanted to make history. The 67-year-old is set to do that 12 years later in a more unexpected manner than ...