Parts of the UK have been rocked by four earthquakes in just eight hours, with the biggest - of 2.2 on the Richter scale ...

Falkirk Council is considering introducing a tourist tax, hoping it will generate more than a million pounds of income every ...

Local authorities say they will have to make "difficult decisions" to offset a rise in National Insurance.

The number of alcohol-specific deaths in Scotland has reached a 15-year high, the latest official figures show.There were ...

Office for National Statistics data shows there were 1,277 deaths due to conditions wholly caused by alcohol in 2023.

New maps from weather watchers at WXCharts show huge swathes of the UK turning white as a fresh blasting of snow comes ...

At the head of beautiful Loch Long in Argyll sits one of Scotland's biggest plastic problems. A combination of prevailing ...

This show snowy weather extending from the South Coast to Yorkshire, with only coastal areas of Norfolk, Suffolk, Cornwall ...

BBC Panorama has travelled across the UK - to Aberdeenshire, Lincolnshire and Suffolk - to hear from people in landscapes ...

This weather map shows a 570-mile stretch of snow that is expected to cover the UK in just one week - with two areas of ...

A rare “stay at home” warning has been issued for parts of the United Kingdom and Ireland as a severe storm lashes the region ...

It then emerged that the UK government was considering blocking Scotland's plans because it wanted a single scheme for all four nations. UK ministers eventually decided they would grant an ...