The number of Scots students entering Scottish universities this year has risen by 7%, reaching a new record. According to data from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (Ucas), the number ...

The £150 million pledged for offshore wind in the Scottish Budget will create a “sustainable supply chain” to benefit Scotland for years to come, a minister has said. Acting net zero secretary Gillian ...

Around 150,000 children in Scotland have been subjected to online sexual abuse in the past year, according to new estimates by a child safety institution.

Metropolitan Police staff have voted to go on strike in a row over plans to cut back on the time they can work from home. The Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) said there was “overwhelming ...

Lisa Nandy wants to explore whether stronger legal powers can be offered to an independent body to hold the creative sector accountable.

Meta said it is “99% of the way there” in solving an ongoing social media blackout with its apps. On Wednesday at around 6pm, thousands of social media users in parts of the UK reported an outage with ...

Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected and ‘weighed’ a galaxy that existed about 600 million years after the big bang.

A police officer in Pakistan has described using “hard tactics” to find Sara Sharif’s fugitive family, while a relative said they hid in corn fields when police raided his home during the four-week ...

The lights have gone back on at a library which was torched in riots – with other facilities across the country lighting up ...

The underworld activities of Ronnie and Reggie Kray were cited by Lord Hamilton of Epsom as he spoke against Government ...

Ministers will not set an arbitrary cap on the number of civil servants amid reports more than 10,000 jobs could be lost as the result of a spending squeeze.

Public health minister Jenni Minto said NHS Lothian has ‘started to implement’ action at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.