An eye-watering 132,945 small businesses on UK high streets will be extinct within 15 years - with local pubs and bars set to vanish in little over a decade. In a stark warning to shoppers this Black ...

Labour MP Marie Tidball said the Bill would empower people to make choices about their own deaths with ‘dignity and respect’.

The inquest into the deaths of four men killed in a South Wales mining disaster 13 years ago will have a “forensic and laser-like focus” in answering key questions about the case, a coroner has said.

THE hearse carrying the coffin of comedian Janey Godley will travel on a two-day “final tour” of Edinburgh and Glasgow ahead of her funeral. Godley, 63, died on November 2 after receiving palliative ...

From daffodils to bluebells, some spring bulbs are poisonous to dogs so it's important they don't get hold of or dig any up.

The country’s deputy premier Micheal Martin encouraged people to brave the wet and windy weather and to use their vote.

The restored interior of the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris has been unveiled more than five years since a fire devastated the landmark. French President Emmanuel Macron visited the church to admire ...

Called Bindee, the Asiatic lion is eight years old. These big cats “can only be found in the Gir Forest in India” wrote Edinburgh Zoo. To give a comparison scale, these big wild cats live in an area ...

A man has been jailed for life after he “took pleasure” from beating his partner to death in a “savage and merciless” attack next to his bed.

A “luminous” memoir on the art of the Dutch Golden Age has been named book of the year at Scotland’s National Book Awards. Thunderclap: A Memoir Of Art And Life And Sudden Death by Laura Cumming was ...

Surrey Police said the incident on June 15 had been thoroughly investigated as both a criminal and internal misconduct matter and had now concluded.

I MARVEL at the intellectual deep thinking of Neal Ascherson and Gerry Hassan. It is on Mr Ascherson’s piece that I comment on here. Over the ...