The hit, which took 39 years to become a Christmas number one, topped the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra’s poll.

A Met Office yellow warning, covering parts of the Highlands, Argyll and Bute, Perthshire and the Stirling area, is in force and runs until midday on Tuesday. Travel disruption and flooding could hit ...

More than 32,000 student nurses could drop out of their courses in the next few years because of financial pressures, struggling services and worsening pay prospects, a leading health union is warning ...

Drivers are being urged not to travel on major routes for six hours on both Friday and Saturday to avoid the worst Christmas holiday traffic. The RAC and transport analytics company Inrix said roads ...

The former first minister said equal marriage is one of the Scottish Parliament’s top five achievements in its lifetime.

The former Scottish first minister said she is ‘getting on with life as best I can’ as a police probe into SNP finances continues.

Sir Keir Starmer said too many people will be on the sharp end of the country’s ‘broken’ housing system this Christmas.

The Office of Rail and Road is beginning its review looking at train operators’ approach to suspected fare evasion and the impact on passengers.

New cheap vapes are flooding the market and driving up the amount of waste that the incoming ban on single-use vapes aims to tackle, campaigners have warned. Concerns are growing that so-called “big ...

The digital bank’s yearly spending data sheds a light on the shopping habits of its more than 11 million customers in Britain.

Experts said a gradual increase in Caesarean births over the past decade is down to a ‘growing number’ of complexities.

The Deputy Prime Minister will vow to push power out of Whitehall and into the hands of people with ‘skin in the game’.