Peers also rejected an attempt to overturn the move by MPs to decriminalise women terminating their own pregnancy.

Hundreds of firms have been caught underpaying staff and forced to pay back millions as the National Minimum Wage rises again ...

Scotland’s Finance Secretary has demanded the UK Government “finally step up” and provide financial support to Glasgow following the devastating city centre fire. Shona Robison said it is “astonishing ...

Dani Dyer-Bowen has spoken of her love of caravan holidays and said knowing that people are enjoying her latest TV show is “the best thing ever”. The reality TV star has teamed up with her father, ...

Kneecap rapper Liam Og O hAnnaidh has said that labelling the group as antisemitic means people “water that term down”.

Energy firms have been warned not to rip off businesses as the Middle East crisis forces prices up. Regulator Ofgem and Energy Secretary Ed Miliband have written to business suppliers to demand ...

Iran has been taking aim at its Gulf Arab neighbours’ energy facilities since the war with the US and Israel started on ...

An endangered monkey whose foot was saved from amputation thanks to pioneering surgery has given birth. Fifteen-year-old roloway monkey Masaya welcomed infant Lagertha months after a complex operation ...

Ministers said the move, boosting production from 30%, would be coupled with reductions in steel import quotas as part of new trade measures to preserve steel production for criti ...

One school pupil and one university student have died following the outbreak linked to a nightclub in Canterbury.

Israeli defence minister Israel Katz said Iranian intelligence minister Esmail Khatib had been killed in an overnight strike.

Supporters of the change have insisted the issue is ‘not going away’ after MSPs voted down the proposed legislation.