Scotland

Image copyrightNiall Benvie/WTMLImage caption The Grand Old Man of Dawyk was nominated by Graham Stewart, curator of Dawyck Botanic Garden Scotland is being asked to vote for its Tree of the Year. The annual Woodland Trust competition has gathered nominat…

A terminally ill former teacher has died at Dignitas, after making a final plea to politicians to enable people in his situation to end their lives at home. Richard Selley who was diagnosed with motor neurone disease (MND) in 2015, had said the law change wo…

The Second World War wreaked destruction across the globe, with almost 100 countries dragged into the maelstrom and nearly 70 million lives lost. Today, 80 years after the war started, the evidence of it has faded - but there are still scars on the landscape…

Benjamin Netanyahu is travelling to London on Thursday to meet with his embattled British counterpart Boris Johnson. Israels prime minister had earlier in this week cancelled a scheduled trip to India, citing commitments at home surrounding an upcoming gener…

The Bank of England has scaled back its worst-case estimates for the damage which a no-deal Brexit would inflict on the UK economy, but warned crashing out of the EU could still shrink GDP by 5.5 per cent. Governor Mark Carney said the impact of a disorderly…

A farmers wife encouraged her lover to murder her wealthy husband because of a shared venomous hatred of him, a court has heard. Angela Taylor and Paul Cannon allegedly plotted for months to kill William Bill Taylor, who was last seen at his home of Harkness…

Boris Johnson has sworn in Parliament during a bruising PMQs session after a day in which he suffered a historic defeat over his Brexit plan. The new prime minister described Labours economic plans as s**t or bust during a back-and-forth with Jeremy Corbyn. …

A 12-year-old boy narrowly avoided life-threatening injuries after being impaled by a metal spring in a trampoline accident. Jamie Quinlan, of Louth, Lincolnshire, was mid-jump when the foot-long coil suddenly snapped off the bouncer and catapulted into his …

A nine-month-old baby was pelted with eggs in a racially aggravated assault, police said. The child's mother crossing a road in Worcester when the suspect, who is believed to be a white male pelted them with eggs, West Mercia Police said.  Investigators sai…

This is the most perilous week in our countrys recent peacetime history. We have a prime minister prepared to pursue a no-deal Brexit that wasnt even contemplated by the Leave campaign he led during the 2016 EU referendum. In fact, the Leave campaign said sec…