Johnny Matthews has been called up to the Scotland squad ahead of their next autumn international against Portugal at Murrayfield on Saturday. The hooker has been joined by loosehead Alec Hepburn as ...

Taxi driver Urfan Sharif, 42, appearing at the Old Bailey on Monday, once again denied killing his daughter by beating her. He told jurors that he found the 10-year-old collapsed after his wife ...

Dame Sally Davies told the Dawn Sturgess Inquiry that she worried someone would pick up discarded Novichok after the Skripals were poisoned.

Giving evidence to the UK Covid-19 Public Inquiry, NHS England chief executive Amanda Pritchard said that the decision was “disappointing” and that the nation “could be in a different position” when ...

Somerset Council's leader, Cllr Bill Revans, has responded to a statement issued by the Labour government on the financial situation facing ...

Pensioners face having to fill in a 243-question application to claim pension credit, which will unlock winter fuel payments of up to £300.

Home workers save an average of 56 minutes a day from not commuting, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). This frees time for them to get 24 more minutes of “sleep and rest” and 15 ...

A joke and magic shop which claims to be the oldest in the world has closed after 138 years. Tam Shepherds Trick Shop has been a Glasgow institution since 1886. The shop drew in generations of ...

The study found that children with asthma performed worse in memory tasks than children without the lung condition. According to the researchers, memory deficits may have longer-term consequences, and ...

Experts say they now know even less about a typical day on Uranus, and need a second spacecraft to visit the planet in order to find out more.

The Kremlin has rejected reports that President Vladimir Putin spoke last week with President-elect Donald Trump about the war in Ukraine. A spokesman for Mr Trump refused to comment on what he called ...

Russian drones hammered the southern city of Mykolaiv, killing five people and injuring a 45-year-old woman, local authorities said. Around two dozen people sought psychological help following the ...