Redundancy letters have been sent to staff at the Grangemouth refinery as closure looms, the PA news agency understands. It was announced last year that the central Scotland facility would close and ...

Antonya Cooper’s son Hamish had been suffering from stage 4 neuroblastoma – a rare childhood cancer – and was seven when he died at home ...

A 15-year-old boy was stabbed in the heart with a hunting knife at a school in Sheffield, a court has heard. Harvey Willgoose died on Monday after he was injured at All Saints Catholic High School, in ...

Around five per cent of bananas are thought to grow into double bananas, but most are discarded before they can hit the supermarket shelves ...

A BUS in Taunton has stopped at a roadside for nearly an hour after the vehicle's doors malfunctioned. The number 1 bus, which operates through the parade, Station Bridge, opposite Foundation House, ...

A teenager who had his driving licence for less than six months was killed alongside two friends he had picked up from a house party after losing control of his car on a bridge and crashing into a ...

Deputy PM Angela Rayner agreed to cancel elections because the Government is ‘not in the business of holding elections to bodies that ...

Finlay Bealham and Mack Hansen are on course to be fit for Ireland’s Guinness Six Nations clash with Scotland but Tadhg Furlong and Joe McCarthy have been ruled out. Tighthead prop Bealham and wing ...

Elaine C Smith, Susie McCabe, Scott Agnew, Rosco McClelland and Tom Urie will appear in An Afternoon For Janey next month.

Jailing him for 28 years, with an extended licence period of eight years, Judge Sarah Johnston told the defendant: “These were no relationships – you manipulated and groomed these young girls, ...

The Irish government was “missing in action” during the clean-up to damage caused by Storm Eowyn, a Social Democrats TD has said. Wicklow TD Jennifer Whitmore said the government can no longer “wash ...

A Travel Somerset spokesperson said: "The A357 at Yenston is closed for emergency works by Wessex Water due to a 22,000L per hour water mains leak The time scale for repair is unknown, a diversion ...