Scotland

Hundreds of supermarket workers are facing redundancy after Morrisons has revealed it will close four stores.  After suffering a fall in sales in the past three months, the UKs fourth-largest supermarket chain said the closures were part of a constant review…

What is it with the UK and major infrastructure projects? We have endless public enquiries, minority interest pressure groups often drown out the debates, we put the projects off for years then have more enquiries, in the end we either abandon them completely…

John Leslie has denied sexually assaulting a woman in London. The former Blue Peter presenter is accused of sexually touching a woman without her consent in Westminster in 2008. Mr Leslie, from Edinburgh, appeared at Southwark Crown Court on Thursday and en…

A man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering Libby Squire, whose body was found in the Humber estuary in March. Humberside Police said detectives were questioning a 25-year-old man over the death of the student, who disappeared following a night out wit…

Before I left home for university last year, I was led to believe that I was in for the toughest three years of my life. "Free speech is a fantasy on university campuses," I was solemnly assured. As a neoliberal conservative student of Sociology, the right-le…

A man seeking asylum in the UK on the grounds of his sexuality is to have his case retried after a judge wrongly ruled that he was not effeminate enough to be gay, his barrister has claimed. The man, who cannot be named due to an anonymity order, was told…

Iain Duncan Smith's Centre for Social Justice think tank claims that increasing the pension age to 75 is the responsible thing to do. But statistics from 2016 predicted that nearly 40 per cent of men wouldnt see 75, and the average man was expecting to live t…

A man driving a homemade car constructed of a motorbike, plastic, fibreglass and balsa wood was pulled over by startled police on the UK's busiest motorway. A police officer from the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire (BCH) Roads Policing Unit po…

A Westminster framing of the struggle over the historic Harland and Wolff shipyards narrow it to one of market versus state: a purely commercial matter says Boris Johnson, typically ducking the problem. We will bring the yards into public ownership, says John…

Weve known for some time just how big an impact rape culture has had on society. Many of us have also, at some stage, witnessed the nonchalance with which some people treat sexual harassment, even in the face of growing, global, victim-led efforts like the #M…