Some 10,605 assaults on staff in male and female jails were recorded in the period up to December 2024, at a rate of 122 per 1,000 prisoners.

Cast and crew from the programme, which is being axed by BBC Scotland, were at the Scottish Parliament on Thursday.

Popular English idioms such as ‘spill the beans’ are evolving as they pass from one generation to the next, according to the British Council.

Leeds Crown Court heard that Adrian Daniel, 33, died 10 days after he was hit by Mansfield Town player Lucas Akins, who was driving his seven-year-old daughter to a piano lesson in a Mercedes G-Wagon ...

Kate Osborne MP said the Supreme Court’s decision ‘will have a huge impact on my life and many other cis lesbians’.

Ayrshire businesses are invited to shine as one of Scotland’s 'largest award nights' officially opens for entries.

The female Enoplognatha caricis (E. caricis) has been sighted in the UK for just the fifth time ever - find out where.

Kristalina Georgieva’s comments came two days after the IMF downgraded the outlook for world economic growth this year.

Mansfield Town forward Lucas Akins admitted causing the death by careless driving of cyclist Adrian Daniel, 33, in Huddersfield.

The head of Edinburgh University has said “around 350” staff have taken voluntary redundancy as the sector wrestles with a financial crisis, with more jobs being potentially cut. The institution ...

The head of Ireland’s media regulator has denied that it was “thrown under the bus” by the media minister’s plan to block a levy on streaming services.