A new benefit for pensioners has been rolled out across Scotland. The Pension Age Disability Payment is now accepting applications nationwide, following successful pilots in 18 local authority areas ...

A study by the GMB revealed that since 2012, almost 600,000 council jobs had gone. The union said that 13 years ago, local authorities in England and Wales employed 1,894,700 workers, but by 2024 the ...

Drivers across England say they are being sent demands for up to £170 from private parking companies because of faulty machines. The PA news agency has spoken to motorists in several regions who ...

Brazilian electrician Jean Charles de Menezes was shot seven times by police in Stockwell underground station in July 2005.

The piece took the number one slot in the annual Classic FM Hall Of Fame ballot, with 90,000 votes cast by the public.

A UK theologian who had worked closely with the Pope has described an atmosphere of shock, sadness and gratitude in Rome on the day of the Pope’s death. Professor Anna Rowlands, who previously spent ...

Pope Francis has been remembered as someone full of compassion, mercy and “irrepressible hope” as Catholics came together to mourn the death of a pontiff hailed by the King and other world leaders.

“The historic annual Hallaton Bottle Kicking is an Easter tradition like no other, as the villages of Hallaton and Medbourne battle it out to get three barrels, known as bottles, from the starting ...

Chief Superintendent Gillian Kearney criticised the involvement of young people during the disorder as ‘child criminal exploitation’.

Ukraine has accused Russia of continuing its attacks despite Vladimir Putin claiming to have ordered a unilateral ceasefire over the weekend.

The Archbishop of Dublin has said that Pope Francis’s plea for forgiveness in 2018 for abuse scandals in the Catholic Church was an example of the “great mark of the man”.

When East Kilbride’s Jim and William Reid formed a band called The Jesus and Mary Chain in the early 1980s in response to their distaste for the music at the time, they never would have known that ...