Meerkat pups are settling in and starting to “show a bit of character” in their home at a safari park. The four pups were born on May 10 to parents Cardi B and Biggie at Blair Drummond Safari Park ...

Kristie Higgs, a Christian mother of two, was sacked from her role at Farmor’s School in Fairford, Gloucestershire, for sharing Facebook posts.

The decision to reinstate the winter fuel payment should have been made “a long time ago”, Scotland’s Social Justice Secretary has said. Chancellor Rachel Reeves said on Monday that nine million ...

The Chinese-owned social media firm said its UK workforce would expand to 3,000 this year, with plans also for a second office in London.

A nine-year-old girl and her father have died and an 11-year-old girl is fighting for her life after a house fire. The two died after the blaze broke out in Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire, on Sunday, ...

The winter fuel payment controversy has shown just how ‘radioactive’ any attempt at reform has become, one finance expert said.

Zaher al-Waheidi, head of the Health Ministry’s records department, said six people were killed and more than 99 wounded, some of them at another GHF centre in central Gaza. The war began when ...

The SNP came “frustratingly close” to winning the Hamilton by-election, First Minister John Swinney has said. Scottish Labour’s Davy Russell won a surprise victory on Thursday, with the SNP coming ...

You may need to retune your Freeview TV as new ITV channel ITV Quiz has now launched following the closure of ITVBe.

Marcus Arduini Monzo, 37, is on trial accused of murdering schoolboy Daniel Anjorin and attempting to kill four others during a 20-minute rampage in Hainault, north-east London, on April 30 last year.

The partner of wealthy aristocrat Constance Marten has described the prosecution case in their trial over the death of their baby as “like a script from a movie”. Marten, 38, and Mark Gordon, 51, are ...

News that winter fuel payments will return for nine million pensioners has been warmly received by campaigners.