Russia’s Defence Ministry has claimed that Russian troops have fought their way into the centre of a strategically important eastern Ukraine town and raised the Russian flag there after a months-long ...

Scotland’s first-ever visitor levy has been approved by councillors in Edinburgh. Members of Edinburgh city council agreed the plans, which will bring in the charge on those staying in overnight ...

More than 100,000 households have been left without power and people have been urged to stay indoors amid a red weather warning as Scotland is hit by hurricane force winds. First Minister John Swinney ...

ESB Networks in Ireland and NIE Networks say they expect significant further outages as Storm Eowyn continues to batter parts of the island.

Farmers are stepping up their campaign against the government’s controversial inheritance tax reforms, with a series of protests across the country on Saturday. The National Farmers Union (NFU) warned ...

Deveca Rose was in Sainsbury’s when her two sets of twins, aged three and four, became trapped in a blaze at the family home.

More than 280,000 homes and businesses are without power in Northern Ireland after Storm Eowyn battered the region. Hundreds of trees came down during the storm, damaging properties and blocking roads ...

Twins Bryson, Kyson, Logan and Leyton, aged four and three, died in fear and suffering after their mother Deveca Rose left them in a locked terraced house that caught fire on the evening of December ...

A man who committed “an attack of monstrous evil with the worst possible consequences” on an eight-week-old baby has been jailed for 21 years. Tom Kember, 27, caused grievous bodily harm with intent ...

A proposed law to compel the Government to help achieve climate and nature targets has failed to make progress in the Commons. The Government successfully moved a motion to adjourn the second reading ...

The Met Office has issued red and amber warnings across much of the country and people have been warned to stay indoors.

Katrin Ivanova, 33, is on trial accused of carrying out surveillance on individuals and places of interest to Russia for more than two years.