As Ms Newton-Smith called for tough decisions on welfare, the Chancellor appeared set to lift the two-child benefit cap, a ...

Pool star Christopher Ross was overjoyed after playing a vital part in Scotland B’s triumph at the European Blackball ...

Several properties have been evacuated after a car crashed into a gas substation in West Sussex. Residents from six flats and ...

A bricklayer’s hat-trick of award wins has made company history at Moray firm Springfield Properties. Dean Murdoch, based in ...

Fiscal depute Shay Treanor told the court that Farquhar became aggressive and struck the woman “without warning or ...

It comes as she is expected to scrap the two-child benefit cap, in a move that could cost more than £3 billion.

BBC chairman Samir Shah, board member Sir Robbie Gibb and former editorial adviser Michael Prescott are to face questions from MPs on the Culture, Media And Sport Committee. They will be quizzed about ...

The OBR’s current forecast for growth across the whole of 2025 – published back in March – is 1.0%, rising to 1.9% in 2026.

Talks with Ukraine on the US-drafted peace plan yielded “tremendous” progress, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said as ...

She is expected to say the Employment Rights Bill is ‘the single most complained-about measure’ she hears when she speaks to ...

The Aberdeenshire area has seen a recycling increase with more than 1800 tonnes of additional waste disposed this way in 2024 ...