There is “too much bureaucracy” which is making it “too slow to get things done” across the UK, Rachel Reeves has told ...

Some Labour backbenchers are “jumping to conclusions” about expected reforms to the welfare system before the plans are ...

A Galashiels art centre launched a crowdfunding campaign last week to encourage more “creativity, inspiration and out of the box thinking”.

The Financial Conduct Authority said Mr Odey ‘repeatedly sought to evade and obstruct efforts to hold him to account’.

A former senior director said the water firm could collapse soon without a funding deal, which would bring it under temporary state ownership.

Belgian actress Emilie Dequenne has died at the age of 43, her agent confirmed. She revealed in an Instagram post in October 2023 that she had a “rare cancer” and, according to reports, had been ...

Thousands of people are expected to fill the streets of Dublin to watch Ireland’s national St Patrick’s Day parade on Monday. Children, adults and visitors from across the world will pack the city ...

Only higher-income households are seeing an improvement in their financial situation, the S&P Global UK Consumer Sentiment Index survey found.

Police are investigating after paint was thrown at a mosque and a rock hurled through a window while worshippers were inside. Aberdeen Mosque and Islamic Centre has condemned the “wilful and ...

An SNP MP has said there is a “huge amount of talent” among proposed candidates for next year’s Holyrood election after a former health secretary became the latest MSP to announce he would stand down.

The Prime Minister will meet with the ex-governor of the Bank of England Mark Carney, as he undertakes his first foreign trips since being sworn in to office in Canada last week. Mr Carney is also ...

AN INVESTIGATION has been launched into reports of historical sexual abuse at a secondary school in the Borders. Police are probing incidents that allegedly took place in Galashiels between 1969 and ...