A “very rare” portrait of Robert Burns has sold for more than 160 times its estimated price of about £500. The picture, painted in the manner of Sir Henry Raeburn, fetched £84,320 (including buyer’s ...

Northern Ireland Secretary Hilary Benn warned ‘there is an issue in respect to Northern Ireland’ if the EU brings in countermeasures.

GIRVAN’S RNLI lifeboat crew raced to a large sailing vessel in distress near Lendalfoot in the early hours of today (Wednesday, April 2). Pagers were activated for the station’s first callout of 2025 ...

Children harmed by a surgeon at the centre of a large probe should be given interim compensation payments, lawyers have said. Last year, Great Ormond Street Hospital (Gosh) launched a review of the ...

Parts of the Duke of Sussex’s appeal against a High Court ruling related to the level of security he is given when he is in the UK will be held in private, the Court of Appeal has ordered.

The judge said Douglas Clifton Brown would be entitled to be released on licence after serving two thirds of his sentence.

British businesses are braced for the impact of the US president’s tariffs, which have the potential to derail the UK Government’s ...

A murder-suicide investigation has been launched into the deaths of a couple in New Zealand, police have said. The couple, who are believed to be British, were found after officers responded to a ...

Across the country as a whole, job vacancies fell by 15.1% in the four months since the budget, compared to the previous four months, the report said.

PART of the A77 through Ayr has been closed following a reported gas leak, police have confirmed. The route has been shut by emergency services between the exit to the A79 and the B7043. Officers say ...

Women in England and Wales are likely to continue having babies later in life than previous generations, as well as having smaller families, new figures suggest.

Around 100 people gathered outside the University of London’s Senate House Library in central London on Tuesday evening.