Some 126 party backbenchers had signed an amendment that would halt the Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill in its tracks.

The US and China have signed an agreement on trade, President Donald Trump said, adding he expects to soon have a deal with India. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told Bloomberg TV that the deal was ...

Nick Carroll, chief executive of Together for Short Lives, said: “As ministers try to shift greater levels of healthcare from hospitals into communities, our amazing children’s hospices are doing more ...

Inspector Moloy Campbell said his thoughts were entirely focused on the need to ‘preserve life’ including that of his officers on the ground.

First Minister John Swinney has said it would be “reasonable” for a former principal of the cash-strapped University of ...

A double-decker bus carrying sixth-form college students has crashed off a road and ended up in a river, leaving three people ...

Record numbers of hen harriers have been killed or gone missing under suspicious circumstances in the last five years, ...