John Swinney has said he would be happy to meet with the family of Sheku Bayoh, after the chairman of the inquiry into his death stood down. The First Minister’s comments come as the Scottish Greens ...

Russian missile and drone attacks on Ukraine overnight into Saturday killed at least four people and wounded 20, officials ...

Reform UK MP Sarah Pochin has apologised for any offence caused after saying “it drives me mad when I see adverts full of black people, full of Asian people”. She said her comments were “phrased ...

Congratulating Ms Connolly, the Social Democrats’ Holly Cairns called the victory a “seismic moment in our history”. She said: “The momentum behind Catherine’s presidential bid was incredible, growing ...

Police said Ethiopian national Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu has made a number of trips in London and has access to funds.

Leaders of parties which backed the independent candidate have been congratulating her ahead of an expected decisive victory.

Reform MP Sarah Pochin has hit out at “woke” adverts “full of black people”. The Runcorn and Helsby MP said it “drives me mad” and claimed the “average white family” was no longer represented. Labour ...

Commander James Conway said that the asylum seeker had taken ‘a number of journeys’ across London since his release on Friday.

Among the political names mentioned in the race for the Aras were Taoiseach Michael Martin, former taoiseach Bertie Ahern, Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald, Northern Ireland First Minister Michelle ...

A former Labour Treasury minister and the first director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, Lord Taverne became a Lib Dem peer in 1996.

Aled Williams, Gavin Wellington, and Gemma Harries have been jailed after being caught running a ‘lucrative’ cocaine operation in Pontarddulais.

An asylum seeker accidentally released from prison was last seen in the London area, police said, as officers urged anyone who spots him to call 999 immediately. Ethiopian national Hadush Gerberslasie ...