The Government has announced a raft of changes to the welfare system which it said will help support people into work. The ...

The Scottish Social Justice Secretary spoke out after the UK Government set out a series of reforms to the welfare system.

Sex education for 17 and 18-year-olds could help young people identify abusive partners and be “lifesaving”, an MP has said.

Unison Scotland said it was the first time in more than a decade that staff in the charitable sector had voted for strike ...

Rapper Nathan Tokosi, also known as DigDat, has been found guilty of attempted murder over a drive-by shooting where the ...

Communities Minister Gordon Lyons said he had concerns but warned Stormont does not have the resources to mitigate all the ...

Screams could be heard after a van crash which left a woman in her 20s dead, witnesses said. Two others were injured in the ...

The Independent is launching a new fast news service that will harness artificial intelligence (AI) to create summarised ...

Mercer, of Gun Lane, Strood, had denied murder but was found guilty on Friday at the end of a four-week trial.

Conor McGregor “does not represent the men” of Ireland, an Irish Government minister has said. The mixed martial artist has ...

Dmitrii Ovsiannikov, 48, the former mayor of Sevastopol in occupied Crimea, is facing multiple counts of circumventing ...