Finance experts suggested that speculation over potential Budget measures may have had an impact on households’ sentiment.

BBC Radio Scotland’s Breakfast show was taken off air after the fire broke out, with a Radio 5 Live broadcast taking its place. The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said the blaze had been ...

Rachel Reeves has been forced to defend herself against claims she misled voters by talking up the scale of the fiscal challenge ahead of the Budget.

BBC Scotland’s headquarters in Glasgow has been evacuated after a fire broke out in the building. The broadcaster reported that staff left the building in Pacific Quay after the alarm sounded at about ...

Flood alerts have been issued for large parts of Scotland as heavy rain moves in from the west on Monday. South-west Scotland has already seen heavy rain on Sunday night, with the downpour expected to ...

Testing has been ramped up after the first suspected Bluetongue case on the island of Ireland. Two cows have been culled after the alarm was raised at an abattoir close to Bangor, Co Down. Northern ...

Millie Fairley, from Eastbourne, East Sussex, has aplastic anaemia, which affects around two people in every million in the ...

Cancelling knee replacement surgeries is “unforgivable”, academics have said, as a new study highlighted how postponing ...

A court in Bangladesh’s capital on Monday sentenced ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina to five years in prison and her niece, Labour MP Tulip Siddiq, to two years in prison for corruption involving a ...

Labour MP Tulip Siddiq has been sentenced by a court in Bangladesh to two years in prison for corruption involving a government land project. Her aunt, ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, was ...

The director of UK special forces made a “conscious decision” to cover up potential war crimes in Afghanistan, an inquiry has been told. The Afghanistan Inquiry has released summaries of closed ...

Star of BBC's Call the Midwife, Jenny Agutter, has hinted at a "disturbing" storyline in the show's two-part Christmas special. The drama set in Poplar, London, first aired on the BBC in 2012 and was ...