Service personnel and others from the UK are facing “acute security threats” amid the conflict in the Middle East, John Swinney has said as he reiterated calls for a diplomatic solution.

Dame Prue Leith said there is a “deep outrage at what is happening” with the assisted dying Bill in the House of Lords amid concerns it will run out of time to become law.

Some lenders have pushed pause on planned mortgage rate cuts, according to a financial information website, amid wider economic and global uncertainties as the conflict in the Middle East unfolds.

Sir Robin Wales, the former Labour mayor of Newham, and Clive Furness, who also served on the council, have joined Reform UK.

The Type 45 destroyer is in Portsmouth and its departure to the easter Mediterranean may not come for several days.

The Aberdeen-based business published inaccurate information in financial results published in 2022, 2023 and 2024, the FCA said.

Noah, a pupil at St Malachy’s College, was 14 when his naked body was found in a storm drain tunnel in north Belfast in June 2020.

A retired Hong Kong police officer and Border Force official engaged in “shadow policing” on British soil on behalf of China, a court has heard. Dual Chinese and British nationals Peter Wai, 38, and ...

The tempo of the strikes on Iran was so intense that authorities postponed the mourning ceremony for Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.