Great British Energy will not invest in any supply chains that involve slave labour, energy minister Michael Shanks has said, with measures to establish the state-owned energy company on the verge of ...

Christopher Herd, 48, was charged by Essex Police with one count of indecent exposure and three counts of upskirting on April 13. He will appear at Chelmsford Magistrates’ Court. Herd was arrested on ...

A MAN has appeared in court after a drugs bust at a home in Stevenston. Tran Dat submitted no plea to charges of producing a controlled drug and interfering with an electricity meter during a private ...

The young people's engagement event, organised by North Ayrshire Child Protection Committee (CPC), took place at Greenwood Academy on Friday, May 2. The event aimed to understand what young people ...

Kyra Hill got into difficulty in a designated swimming area at Liquid Leisure near Windsor, Berkshire, in August 2022.

A BID to reverse a controversial North Ayrshire Council budget decision has fallen. Elected members voted not to suspend standing orders at a full council meeting on Wednesday, May 14. Local Labour ...

More than 30,000 people in the UK were infected with viruses, including HIV and hepatitis C, after receiving contaminated blood.

The backlash to Sir Keir Starmer’s speech on immigration has been “way overblown”, a senior Cabinet minister has said. The Prime Minister has faced criticism for the language he used in the speech, ...

Care staff working at Enable Scotland are to go on strike in a dispute over pay in the first national care walkout in more than a decade, Unison has announced. The strike will roll out across five ...

Tim FitzHigham, creative director of St George’s Guildhall in King’s Lynn, Norfolk described it as the “dry equivalent of the Mary Rose”. The theatre identified 15th century floorboards believed to ...

Three new prisons will be built starting this year, as part of a “record prison expansion”, Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood said, as the Government grapples with near-full jails.

AN ARDROSSAN man has been banned from the roads after driving whilst nearly nine times the cocaine limit. Derek Paterson appeared for sentencing at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court on Monday, May 12 after ...