Almost 40% of Scottish respondents to a survey on workplace sexual harassment have reported inappropriate touching. The survey, run by trade union Unite, polled more than 6,000 women across the UK – 1 ...

Richard Shaw, 45, has been charged with fraud by abuse of position after the ‘comprehensive’ probe into Bolton Council.

The Government says it has already started work on three of the report’s recommendations: establishing an SME hub to provide support to new market entrants, a “defence exports office” in the Ministry ...

The NHS could face six months of disruption after resident doctors in England voted in favour of strike action. Some 90% of voting resident doctors in England, formerly known as junior doctors, said ...

The alert will be in place from 10am on Wednesday to 10am on July 15, with ‘significant impacts’ likely across health and social care services.

French president Emmanuel Macron said talks with the UK would also cover defence, security and nuclear energy.

England has had the hottest spring and the driest for more than a century, with northern areas drought-stricken.

Tory former Cabinet minister Lord Norman Tebbit, who has died aged 94, was an “icon in British politics”, Kemi Badenoch said. The Conservative grandee was one of Margaret Thatcher’s closest political ...

The Office for Budget Responsibility said the state finances were facing ‘mounting risks’ in the face of growing debts.

AN HISTORIC American wartime hangar has been saved from the scrapyard at a construction site in central Bridgwater. Robbert Turner of Westonzoyland Aviation Museum was instrumental in the process and ...