The backlog in maintaining crumbling schools, hospitals and prisons costs at least £49 billion but could be larger, a spending watchdog has said. Ministers have also been warned by the head of the ...

Devolved governments face “years of inertia, delay and uncertainty” without reforms being made to a key piece of post-Brexit legislation, campaigners have claimed. A new report for Scottish ...

Leading tech firms have helped to develop a set of safety expectations for artificial intelligence tools in the classroom, the Government has announced. Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson will set ...

The First Minister wants to see a scheme put in place to allow overseas students to remain in Scotland after graduating.

The DWP will also be able to recover money directly from fraudsters’ bank accounts under the drive to tackle benefit fraud.

Sir Keir Starmer must intervene and strengthen incoming online safety rules after a record amount of child sexual abuse material was found on the internet in 2024, a leading online safety organisation ...

It came as James Watt announced plans for a new reality show where business founders can win £2 million of investment.

Sharon Horgan says the production of the second season of Bad Sisters had to be “shut down” for a time, because she found it difficult to deal with her grief after the death of her father.

Sir Keir Starmer announced a review of terror laws to address ‘extreme violence carried out by loners, misfits, young men in their bedrooms’.

People are to be sent from Oxford to the Netherlands to be deliberately infected with a form of malaria so scientists can study its effects. Plasmodium vivax is a type of malaria that can remain ...

According to the research, 61% of children chose “kindness” as the Children’s Word of the Year, with some of them associating the word with mental health. It is so encouraging that kindness has been ...