Some 10,605 assaults on staff in male and female jails were recorded in the period up to December 2024, at a rate of 122 per 1,000 prisoners.

Cast and crew from the programme, which is being axed by BBC Scotland, were at the Scottish Parliament on Thursday.

Government funding for free school meals offered to pupils in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 will rise from £2.58 to £2.61 a meal in September.

A four-storey, late 1800s period-style house with a sizeable annex and extensive gardens is for sale in Preston-on-the-Hill.

Popular English idioms such as ‘spill the beans’ are evolving as they pass from one generation to the next, according to the British Council.

Mansfield Town forward Lucas Akins admitted causing the death by careless driving of cyclist Adrian Daniel, 33, in Huddersfield.

Leeds Crown Court heard that Adrian Daniel, 33, died 10 days after he was hit by Mansfield Town player Lucas Akins, who was driving his seven-year-old daughter to a piano lesson in a Mercedes G-Wagon ...

Kate Osborne MP said the Supreme Court’s decision ‘will have a huge impact on my life and many other cis lesbians’.

The head of Edinburgh University has said “around 350” staff have taken voluntary redundancy as the sector wrestles with a financial crisis, with more jobs being potentially cut. The institution ...

A 12-year-old girl has been taken to hospital after being injured during an incident at a school. Police were called to Hazlehead Academy in Aberdeen at around 10.30am on Thursday. Aberdeen City ...

Leah Harrison, from Darlington, was crossing a stream while on an instructor-led walk when a mudslide came down a bank and knocked her off her feet.