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 ...

Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch also challenged Sir Keir Starmer over oil and gas projects in the North Sea.

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

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

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 ...

Food and drink brands have redesigned existing products – or made entirely new ones – that support rather than deplete nature.

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 ...

Sophie and the Duke of Edinburgh are on a six-day official royal tour of the south Asian country to celebrate its close ties to the UK.

A former ice hockey player and TV extra has been jailed for 28 years for the rape and sexual abuse of seven girls. Victims of Philip Hamer clapped the judge and burst into tears in the public gallery ...

Earthquakes have continued to rattle Greece’s volcanic island of Santorini every few minutes through the night and into Wednesday. Authorities have bolstered their emergency plans in case the hundreds ...

Openreach and Nokia said the ‘revolutionary’ technology promised to deliver speeds 20 times faster than the fastest current service in the UK.

AN AYR man accused of domestic abuse towards a partner has been granted bail. Grant Semple appeared in the dock for a petition hearing at Ayr Sheriff Court this week to face the single charge of ...