First Minister John Swinney has said it would be “reasonable” for a former principal of the cash-strapped University of ...

Geoffrey Roberts said it was important for Second World War veterans to be recognised ‘for the ones who didn’t come home’.

An amber heat-health alert covering Kent has been issued as temperatures are set to soar again. The north of the county will ...

Three “high-priority” patients have been taken to hospital after a double decker bus left the road and ended up in a river.

A double-decker bus carrying sixth-form college students has crashed off a road and ended up in a river, leaving three people ...

An unwell pensioner who refused to pay his water bill in protest at sewage has been forced to stump up the cash in court.

Police have praised the bravery of members of the public and emergency services who helped rescue some of the students and the driver who were trapped on board the Bluestar bus following the accident ...

Britons survived sweltering temperatures during the days of empire, a Tory former minister has said as he cautioned against taking the threat of extreme heat “overseriously”.

Tory MSP Rachael Hamilton quoted one Scot as saying people are ‘scared, attacked and traumatised’ by the birds.

Scottish planting rates have fallen back after surging levels of woodland creation last year, the data reveals.

A teenager who stabbed a man 51 times in a “frenzied” attack has been locked up. Haiden Tomlin was 18 when he unleashed an assault on a neighbour at a block of flats in Fairmeadow in Maidstone during ...

Fulham will join the Gills, Colchester United and League 1 Wycombe Wanderers in Group G of the southern section. Gillingham will play two of their three games at home - including against Fulham. The ...