Technology Secretary Liz Kendall and Chancellor Rachel Reeves are among ministers putting pressure on firms to act.

Families claim they were not consulted before the council announced its decision to move schedules to a term-time system.

The Scottish Government is hosting a special summit which will consider how best to respond to the blazes. Ministers have ...

Non-food sales growth slowed to 0.7% against growth of 1.7% last September and below the 12-month average growth of 0.9%, the BRC and KPMG reported.

A new National Audit Office (NAO) report sets out the reasons for failures in the government’s energy efficiency scheme for homes.

Three young children have been left injured after a detached trailer struck a pram in Dumfries. The infants, aged eight ...

A new treatment for incurable blood cancer that can help extend patients’ lives by more than three years has been approved ...

Speaking on the final day of the SNP conference in Aberdeen on Monday, John Swinney said it will “break from the status quo” ...

The SPFL confirmed the amendments for games played between November and January. Ten Premiership games due to be played over ...

A woman was confronted by an armed sex attacker when she turned up to fit him with an electronic monitoring tag. Patrick ...

A major road has been closed in both directions as a result of a collision in Glasgow on Monday night. Emergency services are ...

A short-haired owl, which found itself stuck on an oil rig after being blown off course during Storm Amy, is being looked ...