Benefit reforms branded the biggest shake-up to the welfare system in a generation will create a “pro-work system”, the Government has said. But charities have argued the proposed changes are “immoral ...

Nicholas Prosper had researched how to fake a gun licence and bought a gun and ammunition from a dealer he arranged to meet in a car park.

A mother sobbed as she described how her mentally ill daughter was “let down” by healthcare services after she had “begged” for support in the weeks before she died. Rosie Fender, 26, died of a ...

Campaigners demanded action as Public Health Scotland revealed the number of Scots with chronic liver disease is estimated to increase by 54% by 2044.

Two men have been arrested and charged after police raided a cannabis farm valued at more than £380,000. Officers acting on intelligence searched industrial unit on Craigshaw Road, Aberdeen at about ...

A British playwright has embarked on a 150-mile fasting pilgrimage to raise funds for schoolchildren in Gaza and to stand up against Islamophobia. Peter Oswald, a former writer in residence at ...

Shabana Mahmood said January saw the highest average monthly growth of the prison population in almost two years as she re-enacted the move.

Sir Keir Starmer said failure to reform the system would be ‘morally bankrupt’ but his own backbenchers, unions and campaigners hit back.

The charity People’s Trust for Endangered Species (PTES) is asking nature lovers to help them track changes in populations.

It is “difficult to see” how a right to recovery from addiction would be enforced, MSPs have heard. Former Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross has proposed the Right to Addiction Recovery (Scotland) ...

A long-established interior design and furnishing shop in Inverness is set to close with the owners announcing their retirement.

Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall said the current social security system is “failing the very people it is supposed to help and holding our country back”.