The Scottish Affairs Committee heard SaxaVord Spaceport on Unst is ‘absolutely’ planning on a launch this year.

Ben Condon, who was two months old, died at Bristol Children’s Hospital in April 2015 after developing a respiratory illness.

Redundancy letters have been sent to staff at the Grangemouth refinery as closure looms, the PA news agency understands. It was announced last year that the central Scotland facility would close and ...

Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch also challenged Sir Keir Starmer over oil and gas projects in the North Sea.

Antonya Cooper’s son Hamish had been suffering from stage 4 neuroblastoma – a rare childhood cancer – and was seven when he died at home ...

Food and drink brands have redesigned existing products – or made entirely new ones – that support rather than deplete nature.

A 15-year-old boy was stabbed in the heart with a hunting knife at a school in Sheffield, a court has heard. Harvey Willgoose died on Monday after he was injured at All Saints Catholic High School, in ...

Deputy PM Angela Rayner agreed to cancel elections because the Government is ‘not in the business of holding elections to bodies that ...

Earthquakes have continued to rattle Greece’s volcanic island of Santorini every few minutes through the night and into Wednesday. Authorities have bolstered their emergency plans in case the hundreds ...

Experts are predicting a rate cut to 4.5 – but signs of rising inflation leave the Bank walking ‘a tightrope’ for future reductions this year.

A former ice hockey player and TV extra has been jailed for 28 years for the rape and sexual abuse of seven girls. Victims of Philip Hamer clapped the judge and burst into tears in the public gallery ...

The Irish government was “missing in action” during the clean-up to damage caused by Storm Eowyn, a Social Democrats TD has said. Wicklow TD Jennifer Whitmore said the government can no longer “wash ...