Scotland

Women and minority communities may suffer because the government has rushed its spending review without taking their needs into account, Labour has warned. Shadow Treasury minister Anneliese Dodds criticised the haste with which the review has been put toget…

Police have released an image of a woman they would like to speak to over a racially aggravated assault that left one victim with potentially broken ribs and a second with internal bleeding. The two women were attacked at around 5.30pm on 23 August as they p…

Perhaps the greatest achievement of our time is the gains made in life expectancy. We are living much longer than our Victorian counterparts who were lucky to see their forties. Double that life span is now the norm. But this advance is not shared by all part…

A man has been jailed for shouting, one, two, three, heil Hitler! at a Jewish family on a London bus. David Aherne also told the family to go have a sausage sandwich during the antisemitic rant aboard the 149 bus in Hackney. After police were called, Aherne…

On entering I was struck by the sight of rows of womens faces pressed against the open observation hatches of their locked doors, peering into the narrow, dark cell block corridor.  Do not be mistaken. These are not pre-Victorian observations of angel of the…

A man drove his digger into a Travelodge after his employers allegedly failed to pay him over the Christmas period, a court has heard. John Manley admitted driving the vehicle into the front of his hotel in Liverpool Innovation Park on 21 January. The 35-ye…

The pound has tumbled sharply against the US dollar as speculation mounts that Boris Johnson is planning to call a snap general election. Sterling plunged more than a cent to $1.2036 on Monday afternoon on the eve of a parliamentary showdown over the threat …

A 26-year-old man has admitted crushing a three-year-old boy to death with his car seat. Stephen Waterson, the son of an ex-government minister, squashed Alfie Lamb in the footwell of his Audi convertible while his mother Adrian Hoare looked on. He then orc…

There are three things to bear in mind about the (scheduled anything can happen these strange days) spending review. The first is that it hardly lives up to the name. Spending reviews are supposed to give everyone concerned civil servants, NHS managers, gene…

Two men are in hospital after a double stabbing at a Tube station in south London. Officers were called to Elephant and Castle station just before 11.30pm on Sunday after two men were found seriously injured in a street nearby. The two men have been admitte…