FEMALE teachers in Scotland are more than a third more likely to be attacked than their male counterparts, according to a new ...

TURNING the North Sea transition into a “renewables powerhouse” must be a “national mission” for both UK and Scottish ...

As tensions rise in the Middle East, the role of Iran in the region’s political balance becomes ever more significant. STEVE BISHOP assesses the current situation ...

A SHORTAGE of work coaches at jobcentres is undermining Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s drive to get more benefit claimants into work, a charity has warned. In the Spring Statement, Ms Reeves said reforms ...

An Institute for Fiscal Studies analysis in 2023 revealed that disability benefits account for 2.5 per cent of total welfare spending £15.4bn a year, which is a fraction of the £44bn annual cost of ...

ALMOST half of people in Scotland are worried whether they can pay gas and electric bills in the year ahead, according to a new survey.

THE morning-after pill is set to be made free in pharmacies in England to end an “unfair postcode lottery.” Emergency ...

TRANSPORT union RMT has urged rail operator Avanti to address ticket office staff shortages on the West Coast Mainline. Plans to close ticket offices nationwide were axed in 2023 after a successful ...

But Sophie Chandauka, the chairwoman of Sentebale since 2023, has accused the duke of being involved in a cover-up of a probe into bullying, harassment and misogyny at the organisation and said the ...

HAMAS has accepted a new Gaza ceasefire proposal from mediators Egypt and Qatar, the Palestinian militant group said at the weekend. But Israel, which unilaterally broke the previous ceasefire deal, ...

PEOPLE dug frantically with their bare hands through the debris of collapsed buildings in Myanmar’s second-largest city today, two days after a massive earthquake killed more than 1,700 people and ...

IRAN will not hold direct negotiations with the United States over its nuclear programme, President Masoud Pezeshkian said today. Commenting on a letter sent by US President Donald Trump to Iranian ...