Scotland

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…

A common diabetes medication can be used to treat patients with heart failure, according to new research. Scientists have found dapagliflozin a drug that helps control blood sugar levels can also reduce the risk of cardiovascular conditions worsening or caus…

Two men have been charged with the murder of a 17-year-old boy in Wales. The body of Harry Baker, who lived in Cardiff, was discovered at Barry Docks in south Wales on Wednesday morning. Peter McCarthy, 36, and Ryan Palmer, 33, both from Barry, were charged…

An attempt to transform the Irish landscape with nature's own carbon captors will see 22 million trees planted every year for the next 20 years. The ambitious plan is the equivalent of planting more than 6,000 Croke Park pitches every year until 2040. If su…

A leaked document outlining the governments plans for schools this week suggests that schools will be given greater powers to exclude pupils. Before it publishes its plans officially we would urge the government to stop and think about the wisdom of simply c…

Three men have been arrested over an attack on journalist Owen Jones outside a London pub. The Guardian columnist had been celebrating his birthday with friends when they were approached by four men in Islington. marched over, kicked me in the back, …

A man who stole a bus and then caused £2,000 of damage during a 10-minute late night joyride has been jailed. Shane Youll was caught inside the Stagecoach single-decker waiting at a set of traffic lights in South Tyneside after his short-lived cruise in Janu…

When it comes to acknowledgement and understanding of autism, we have come a long way in the past few decades. Its easy to forget that this condition was once understood to exist only in two states, high-functioning and low-functioning, that it was predominan…

There is no evidence chlorinated chicken is harmful to health and no scientific reason it should be banned in any post-Brexit trade deal with the US, according to a senior government scientist. The prospect of chlorine-washed poultry flooding into the UK if …