GfK’s long-running Consumer Confidence Index increased by two points in October – although it still languishes at minus 17.

The SNP’s Westminster leader and Aberdeen South MP has urged the Government to act “swiftly” on the issue as the scandal surrounding Andrew’s friendship with the late paedophile Jeffrey Epstein and ...

The Scottish Affairs Committee also said the Scottish and UK governments should have acted sooner to prepare for job losses at Grangemouth.

The Prime Minister will announce that a UK missile-building programme has been accelerated to deliver an extra 140 air defence missiles this winter.

Heather Humphreys is a Presbyterian who was raised on a rural farm near the border and became a popular minister who made a bid for the Irish presidency. The 64-year-old mother-of-two met her husband ...

Andrew relinquished use of his Duke of York title and remaining honours last Friday in a bid to to prevent distracting from the work of the monarch and the royal family, but he remains a prince, ...

Catherine Connolly, a former psychologist and barrister from Galway, is a self-described political “underdog” who has united the Irish left for the presidential election. The 68-year-old mother of two ...

Ms Kyei said she was ‘delighted that someone in the public sector and financial services is being recognised in this way’.

An extra 70 sites, from hospitals to mental health facilities, will be able yo install the clean tech to save on bills.

Friends of the Earth said 47 of the 50 worst areas in the country for air pollution are represented by Labour MPs.

GMB Scotland, one of the largest unions in the industry, has written to the Chancellor warning her not to raise taxes on spirits. In the letter sent ahead of next month’s budget Louise Gilmour, the ...

The Irish public will see a third name on their ballot paper alongside the two candidates actively contesting the race.