Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley welcomed the rule change for fairness but also public safety.

The use of technology could help streamline the bloated state and improve outcomes, the Deputy Prime Minister said.

More than 21 years after the first river of light lantern procession flowed through the streets of Girvan, the Carrick Light Fest is back ...

Three Ayrshire towns are still being considered for a new store by bosses of supermarket giant Lidl - six months after their initial announcement.

The events of Bloody Sunday unfolded after days of mounting tensions in Londonderry. A week before the fatal shootings, soldiers had fired plastic bullets and CS gas at protesters at a banned civil ...

The Met Office has scaled back its yellow weather warnings, but spells of wind and rain are still expected in most parts of the UK.

During the closure, STREETrave is returning to Ayr's iconic former Pavilion venue for four days in November. It means that the "legendary rave mecca of Scotland" is returning to the town in the iconic ...

The Government is still taking too long to compensate victims of the infected blood scandal, MPs have said. The criticism comes as applications for further interim payments for the families of victims ...

A former paratrooper known as Soldier F has been found not guilty of committing two murders and five attempted murders on Bloody Sunday in Londonderry in 1972. Delivering his judgment at Belfast Crown ...

One in five South Ayrshire children are living in poverty – but the situation is even worse in ‘pockets of deep deprivation’, including ...

Downing Street has denied reports that Sir Keir Starmer is preparing to miss his Government’s target to decarbonise the UK’s electricity grid by 2030. The Prime Minister was said to be considering ...

DOBBIES Ayr is now home to one of the largest garden building show sites in the area. The new Tiger show site, launched in partnership with Ayr Garden Buildings, features more than 20 fully assembled ...