The Scottish National Investment Bank has also invested £10m in the scheme, which aims to connect 150 small towns and villages over the ...

An Italian man who was in Edinburgh to see Oasis died after taking ill in his hotel room. Alessandro Croce, a dentist from Teramo, had travelled to Scotland to see the band on the second of their ...

Former world snooker champion Graeme Dott is to stand trial charged with child sex abuse. The 48 year-old is accused of lewd and libidinous behaviour towards two youngsters between 1993 and 2010. The ...

Greenpeace activists have installed a major new work by renowned artist Anish Kapoor onto a Shell platform in the North Sea in a protest ...

Paul Solway, 57, is accused of destroying property with intent to endanger life after an explosion ripped through a terraced property in Derby.

The number of A* and A grades awarded at A-level in Northern Ireland has risen slightly. More than 25,000 students across the region received their AS and A-level examination results on Thursday. In A ...

School and college leavers will be finding out whether they have secured a place at their first choice university.

The AA said it received 50,091 UK callouts in July caused by poor road surfaces, up 2.1 compared with the same month last year.

About 150 people have been evacuated from a major London NHS hospital following reports of a chemical incident. Firefighters were first called at 8.49am on Thursday to Guy’s Hospital in Southwark, ...

A Rhode Island man accused of faking his death and fleeing the United States to evade rape charges was found guilty of sexually assaulting a former girlfriend in his first of two Utah trials. A jury ...

Gabrielle Morgan said she ‘could practically hear (her mother) celebrating’ with her when her offer came through.

Social media influencers may be fuelling interest in A-level economics and business studies among students keen to enjoy similar success in making money, it has been suggested. The current generation ...