The benefit is available for people in work who are on low incomes, as well as those who are out of work or cannot work.

A government minister has visited Ayrshire businesses which have been boosted by  recent international trade and tariff deals.

Baroness Jacqui Smith of Malvern, now an education minister, said criminal gangs were allowed to become entrenched under the Conservative government.

A total of 88,238 people were in jail as of Monday, up 231 on the previous week, the Ministry of Justice said.

Scotland first minister made the claims in her new book, which was released early on Monday after being slated to hit book shelves ...

A man who was killed in Co Down has been described by his family as a “beloved” father and grandfather. The body of Stephen Brannigan, who was in his 50s, was found in a house in Marian Park in ...

Kent Police said the man in his 40s died after being attacked during an altercation on the Isle of Sheppey on the north Kent coast.