A yellow alert for Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Moray, the Highlands, Western Isles, Orkney and Shetland runs until midnight on Thursday.

Millions of families who claim Child Benefit are set to receive increased payments from this April. HMRC has confirmed that families with one child will now receive the new amount of £26.05 per week, ...

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) is reminding parents of the simple steps they can take to reduce the spread of stomach bugs and ...

Pope Francis has denounced the “scourge” of child labour and other abuses suffered by children, saying anyone who harms or exploits a child will have to answer to God.

The fire service estimates the total cost for sickness absences (including for mental health) since 2021 amounts to £800,000.

A MAN from Rhyl who strangled his former partner in Bagillt has been spared jail despite breaching the terms of his suspended sentence. Jason Drysdale, 54, of Kinmel Street, was sentenced to 14 months ...

Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg will serve as the country’s interim leader while the far-right Freedom Party attempts to put together a new coalition government, the president’s ...

The mercury is set to drop sharply, with lows of minus 15C possible in Scotland and northern England overnight on Thursday.

The former New York City mayor owes £118 million dollars to two Georgia election workers after he was found to have defamed them.

Thousands of people remain without power during a bitter cold spell across Ireland. The entire island was under weather warnings coming into Wednesday morning, with temperatures as low as minus 6C ...

A “NAMED party” has been chosen to operate the new Queen’s Market in Rhyl. At a Denbighshire County Council cabinet meeting on December 17, a confidential report was presented seeking approval to ...

Aziz Ziriat and Sam Harris have not been seen or heard from since January 1 and they did not check in for their flight home on January 6.