US President-elect Donald Trump faces sentencing on Friday for his New York hush money conviction after the nation’s highest ...

Firefighters are hoping for a break from fierce winds that have fuelled massive blazes in the Los Angeles area, killing 10 people, obliterating whole neighbourhoods and setting the nation’s ...

Police have released video footage of a police motorcyclist being rammed by a stolen car after the driver was jailed for four years. Marvin Geddes, of Epping Close, Southampton, was sentenced at ...

A reduced timetable will be in place on the strike days, with fewer services running during limited operating hours.

With 21 county councils and 10 unitary authorities due to hold elections this May, some have sought to delay them to allow time to develop proposals on reorganisation. They include Surrey, Oxfordshire ...

John Swinney has said he hopes the UK’s first safer drugs consumption room will help reduce the “entirely unacceptable” level of drug deaths in Scotland. The First Minister was speaking as he toured ...

Kurt Morton, 39, drove in a rally of dozens of tractors on Friday morning to protest against changes to inheritance tax rules for farmers.

The company, which owns energy supplier British Gas, said the UK now has less than a week’s worth of demand for gas in store.

American actor and TV host RuPaul Charles opened RuPaul’s DragCon UK event by paying tribute to fellow drag queen The Vivienne as someone with a passion for “love and life”. James Lee Williams won the ...

The opening of the UK’s first safer drugs consumption room will be a “significant step forward” in efforts to tackle Scotland’s drug problem, John Swinney has said. The First Minister was speaking as ...

Scotland has shivered through the coldest January night in the UK in 15 years as temperatures dropped to minus 14.5C, with dozens of schools closed across northern regions on Friday.

House sales slipped back in November, compared with October, but were higher than the same month a year earlier, according to HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) figures. Across the UK, 92,640 property ...