A former employee at a Fife children’s home has told the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry (SCAI) that allegations of abuse made against him by former residents are “absolute nonsense”. The inquiry was ...

Rachael Maskell said pressing ahead with the welfare reform Bill risked leaving “such a stain” on her party, as she urged ministers to scrap a proposed change to the out-of-work element of universal ...

Hassan Jhangur hit five people with his car when he arrived at his sister’s wedding reception, where a fight had broken out between the ...

Resident doctors will go on strike for five consecutive days later this month in their dispute with the Government over pay, the British Medical Association (BMA) has said. Announcing strike dates ...

Campaign group Save Wimbledon Park is challenging the decision of the Greater London Authority to grant planning permission for the expansion.

Campaigners, school children and grandparents were among those calling for MPs to give the crisis the ‘precedence it needs’.

The document builds on other investigations by international and Israeli human rights groups and the United Nations.

First-time buyers could be given a boost by lenders having the ability to offer more mortgages at high loan-to-income (LTI) levels, if they choose to. The Bank of England said its Financial Policy ...

There were 247,703 conceptions leading to a legal abortion in 2022, a 13.1 rise on the 218,923 recorded in 2021, the ONS said.

Some building societies have reported seeing a jump in cash Isa applications following speculation that the limit could be cut. Reports have suggested that plans to cut the annual tax-free cash Isa ...

Jakob Walpole denies murder and an alternative charge of manslaughter over the death of 81-year-old vintage car restoration expert John Brown.

A teenager allegedly caught buying a gun for a terror attack in an MI5 sting was “lonely and isolated” during the Covid-19 lockdown as he viewed extreme right-wing material in his bedroom.