John Swinney said the 2011 election, where the SNP won a majority, leading to the 2014 independence referendum, had set a ‘precedent’.

By Tuesday, Erin had lost some strength from previous days and dropped to a Category 2 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 105mph, the National Hurricane Centre in Miami said. It was about 650 ...

Good evening from Bristol Rovers' Memorial Stadium, where Latics are looking to bounce back from their first defeat of the season against a ...

The First Minister refused to comment on claims made by Nicola Sturgeon about former SNP leader Alex Salmond in her memoirs.

TV and radio presenter Rylan Clark has called for there to be more stories about transgender people amid a “mass wave of hate”. In an appearance at the Edinburgh TV Festival, Clark, 36, who has ...

Air Canada said it would gradually restart operations after reaching an agreement with the union for 10,000 flight attendants to end a strike that disrupted the travel plans of hundreds of thousands ...

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage hailed the High Court decision in Epping as a “victory” and said he hopes it “provides inspiration to others across the country”, while the shadow home secretary argued ...

More than 8,000 people have asked Ofgem to block Tesla from supplying British households with electricity over owner Elon Musk’s “clear political agenda”. The company applied for a licence from the ...

A road in Oldham will be closed for two weeks. Oldham Council has issued a temporary order for Windsor Road. The closure affects a 75-metre stretch from the junction with the A62, heading southeast.

Chris Whitbread was speaking after Epping Forest council was granted an injunction blocking asylum seekers from being housed at a local hotel.

Three suspects, including a teenage boy, have been arrested following early morning raids which saw the seizure of suspected drugs in Oldham ...

Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said the technology will help locate dangerous individuals attending the street carnival.