Scotland

The new home secretary has the opportunity to make a real difference to trafficking victims lives: she can end the practice of locking them up in immigration detention. It beggars belief that the UK would take away the liberty of people whove experienced seve…

Chief executive of Censis, Paul Winstanley, is determined Scotland will master the internet of things, piece by piece. The market for Internet of Things (IoT) technology, which allows devices to collect and exchange data with one another, is booming, and its…

The minimum wage has not had a negative impact on employment and has helped push up the wages of self-employed workers, according to research. Some economists have warned that raising the minimum wage would push more workers into self-employment because empl…

A man who was trapped in rocks with water up to his neck has been freed after spending nearly four hours in the sea. Firefighters cut through rocks as they battled to save the man after he trapped his leg near the East Promenade in Sheringham, Norfolk. Emer…

The presence of EU doctors and nurses is worth more than £3 billion to the UK economy over five years, according to new figures. The sum represents the taxes paid by an average of more than 11,000 doctors and 31,000 nurses as well as savings on the cost of t…

A group of ghost hunters were mysteriously locked inside a cell at a former police station and had to be rescued by firefighters. Fire crews were called to the Grade II-listed old Accrington Police Station, in Lancashire, just after midnight on July 21 after…

The stand-off with Iran in the Gulf has brought into sharp focus the desperate shortage of ships in the Royal Navy. In consequence, we have had to call on our European partners (how ironic) to help with escorting our tankers.  I am reminded of what Admiral N…

At least six people were assaulted when a late-night brawl erupted on board a cruise ship. Families fled as passengers reportedly used furniture and plates as weapons on board the P&O vessel, which had left Bergen in Norway just 12 hours earlier. Three …

A bride-to-be pretended she was dying of cancer to con a charity into paying for her dream wedding. Carla Louise Evans, 29, is facing jail for fraud after she forged a hospital consultants signature to make out she had bladder cancer and liver failure. The …

Denis Healey was often asked whether he regretted not becoming leader of the Labour Party when Jim Callaghan retired in 1980. He made the famous remark: "I'd rather people were asking me why I wasn't leader rather than why I was."  Perhaps this is a comment …