National Records of Scotland has recommended that Scotland’s next census should take place in 2031 at the same time as the rest of the UK. As part of the plans it has launched a consultation on topics ...

Kim Woodburn, known for her appearances on How Clean is Your House and Celebrity Big brother has died, aged 83.

The duchess referred to a ‘lie’ told eight years ago after she was asked how she would rewrite her public narrative.

Concern has been expressed that Stormont MLAs are delivering pre-scripted text in the Assembly for a clip on social media. Stormont Speaker Edwin Poots said he was also concerned that Points of Order ...

A woman has died after being found with stab wounds inside a house where a gas explosion took place. The 46-year-old was found fatally injured inside a house in Dumont Road, Stoke Newington, ...

A man has admitted murdering and decapitating his 21-year-old girlfriend before texting her mother pretending to be her and searching for internet pornography.

Energy firm Utilita is to pay around £277,000 in compensation after failing to pay its Warm Home Discount payments on time, Ofgem said. The regulator found Utilita – which supplies 800,000 customers – ...

The Justice Secretary has described measures proposing to decriminalise abortion as “extreme” as she outlined her opposition ahead of a vote by MPs. Amendments likely to be debated on Tuesday are ...

UN officials say Israeli military restrictions, a breakdown of law and order, and widespread looting make it difficult to deliver aid.

TV star Kim Woodburn, who rose to fame presenting How Clean Is Your House?, has died at the age of 83 following a short illness, her manager said. Woodburn also appeared in Celebrity Big Brother in ...

Work to get US tariffs on UK steel removed will go on in the coming “days, weeks and months”, the Transport Secretary has said, after a deal was finalised that left the future of those levies up in ...

The Spanish parent firm of TSB has said it is considering the sale of the UK high street bank. Banco Sabadell, which is currently seeking to defend itself from being taken over by a major rival, said ...