Almost 40% of Scottish respondents to a survey on workplace sexual harassment have reported inappropriate touching. The survey, run by trade union Unite, polled more than 6,000 women across the UK – 1 ...

Richard Shaw, 45, has been charged with fraud by abuse of position after the ‘comprehensive’ probe into Bolton Council.

The Government says it has already started work on three of the report’s recommendations: establishing an SME hub to provide support to new market entrants, a “defence exports office” in the Ministry ...

A man has been taken to hospital after being shot by armed police outside a rural village pub in Kent. The shooting took place at around 9pm on Monday at The Park Gate Inn, in Hollingbourne, Kent.

The NHS could face six months of disruption after resident doctors in England voted in favour of strike action. Some 90% of voting resident doctors in England, formerly known as junior doctors, said ...

The alert will be in place from 10am on Wednesday to 10am on July 15, with ‘significant impacts’ likely across health and social care services.

French president Emmanuel Macron said talks with the UK would also cover defence, security and nuclear energy.

England has had the hottest spring and the driest for more than a century, with northern areas drought-stricken.

Tory former Cabinet minister Lord Norman Tebbit, who has died aged 94, was an “icon in British politics”, Kemi Badenoch said. The Conservative grandee was one of Margaret Thatcher’s closest political ...

The bay has been the home of the dolphin for some weeks and has captured the hearts of many locals and tourists. Free diver and marine photographer, Lawrence Grant Michael Talken-Sinclair, a local to ...

The Environment Agency will receive a cash injection of more than £189 million this financial year of 2025/26.

Ireland’s foreign affairs minister said the EU and the US must work “intensively” to get a deal on tariffs in place before the deadline for increased rates, but added he has concerns for the pharma ...