Labour backbenchers have urged the Government to change course on overseas aid as the Foreign Secretary prepares to set out her plans for the development budget. Yvette Cooper will address MPs on ...

Scotland’s Finance Secretary has demanded the UK Government “finally step up” and provide financial support to Glasgow following the devastating city centre fire. Shona Robison said it is “astonishing ...

Reform UK Scotland is set to reveal an “unashamedly ambitious” Holyrood manifesto ahead of the elections in May. The party’s plan is to scrap all net-zero subsidies, reintroduce North Sea oil and gas ...

Energy firms have been warned not to rip off businesses as the Middle East crisis forces prices up. Regulator Ofgem and Energy Secretary Ed Miliband have written to business suppliers to demand ...

An endangered monkey whose foot was saved from amputation thanks to pioneering surgery has given birth. Fifteen-year-old roloway monkey Masaya welcomed infant Lagertha months after a complex operation ...

Ministers said the move, boosting production from 30%, would be coupled with reductions in steel import quotas as part of new trade measures to preserve steel production for criti ...

Sarah Ferguson could have her freedom of the City of York revoked after an upcoming council debate. She became Duchess of York when she married Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor in 1986, and the then-couple ...

Iran has been taking aim at its Gulf Arab neighbours’ energy facilities since the war with the US and Israel started on ...

Israeli defence minister Israel Katz said Iranian intelligence minister Esmail Khatib had been killed in an overnight strike.

Kneecap rapper Liam Og O hAnnaidh has said that labelling the group as antisemitic means people “water that term down”. The group were interviewed by the Big Issue after it was ruled the rapper, who ...

Supporters of the change have insisted the issue is ‘not going away’ after MSPs voted down the proposed legislation.

Iran lashed out after the killing of one of its top leaders in an airstrike, with attacks on its Gulf neighbours and Israel ...