Leanne Lucas said people ‘not involved’ in her care ‘abused their position of trust’ when she was at her most vulnerable.

The Scottish Sentencing Council (SSC) has launched a consultation on draft guidance for domestic abuse offences. Sentences are determined firstly by legislation and then sheriffs or judges can ...

Inverclyde MSP Stewart McMillan was unsuccessful in his bid to become the Scottish Government’s new presiding officer (PO).

The poll indicates a majority of people in Northern Ireland believe Brexit has made the break-up of the UK more likely.

Africa’s top public health body has confirmed a new Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s remote Ituri province, with 246 suspected cases and 65 deaths recorded so far. The deaths ...

Police forces will find themselves taken to court over their use of live facial recognition technology, a watchdog has warned. The controversial system, set to be used by all police forces in England ...

Greenock is the final stop for the vessel at the end of a British Isles cruise from Tilbury which has also featured calls at Dover, Cowes, Kinsale, Douglas, Belfast, Mull and Iona. She leaves Greenock ...

The UK may see a small number of cases of hantavirus in the wake of an outbreak on a cruise ship – but an expert in infectious diseases has said it is “very, very unlikely” it will be “akin to the ...

The Prime Minister is under intense pressure from within his own party, after a series of seismic political moves by challengers to his premiership.

Yields on UK government bonds climbed back up on worries over political instability and the candidates jostling to challenge the Prime Minister.

The energy supplier will compensate customers who were affected in 2018-21 and write off up to £70 million of energy debt for vulnerable customers.

A thug threatened police officers with a ‘handgun’ on a Facebook video and said he was going to ‘blow his head off’.