But rest assured, where there are inefficiencies, we will root them out.” The Cabinet minister said an interim report by Mark Wild, the chief executive of HS2 Ltd, who was ap ...

Fourteen officers were injured, some requiring hospital treatment, following a second night of unrest in the Nailors Row area of the city ...

Plans for a 'much-needed' new development in Barrhead have been approved by council bosses. Family-owned housebuilder AS Homes (Scotland) secured planning permission from East Renfrewshire Council to ...

Six short films created as part of the Sean Connery Talent Lab will be premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. The Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) and the National Film ...

A Metropolitan Police tutor has been dismissed after he bit a female student officer on the neck and touched her thigh at a public work gathering.

Hurricane Erick has formed in the Pacific Ocean on a forecast track to bring heavy rain, strong winds, storm surge and possible mudslides to southern coastal Mexico, the US National Hurricane Centre ...

A person has died in Yorkshire from rabies after becoming infected while on holiday in Morocco, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has said. The person, which the Barnsley Chronicle reports is a ...

The Princess of Wales’s public appearances have increased in recent weeks and she has attended three high profile events.

Kate Phillips has been announced as the permanent chief content officer of the BBC, after she had been performing the role on an interim basis after predecessor Charlotte Moore announced she was ...

A senior union leader has urged the Government to do more to show it values public services and the workers who deliver them. Christina McAnea, general secretary of Unison, told her union’s annual ...

Iran’s supreme leader has rejected US calls for surrender in the face of Israeli strikes and warned that any military involvement by the Americans would cause “irreparable damage” to them, in an ...

Coventry Crown Court heard the 15-year-old, who cannot be named, is now likely to face a jury in February next year.