Rutland and Surrey have held on to their positions as the top two counties of England with the largest proportion of A-level ...

US Vice-President JD Vance has been playing golf at one of Donald Trump’s golf courses on the first morning of his holiday in Scotland. Mr Vance landed at Prestwick Airport in South Ayrshire on ...

Climate change drove record levels of global humidity in 2024, posing a rising risk to people’s health, a new report has warned. The latest “State of the Climate” report published by the Bulletin of ...

Sir Keir Starmer met Volodymyr Zelensky for a private breakfast on Thursday ahead of Donald Trump’s talks with Vladimir Putin.

Fire crews in Greece, Spain and Portugal are racing to contain wildfires, taking advantage of calmer winds that slowed the blazes’ advance. Much of southern Europe, however, remains at high risk under ...

Weather warnings have been issued for thunderstorms across parts of Scotland and Northern Ireland as the fourth heatwave of the summer continues. The Met Office has issued a yellow thunderstorm ...

Students and staff at Prestatyn High School are celebrating after receiving an improved set of A-level results.

Former world snooker champion Graeme Dott is to stand trial next year over allegations of child sex abuse. Dott, 48, is accused of two charges relating to primary school-age children. The allegations ...

Boys have outperformed girls in top A-level grades for the first time in seven years, exam results show. Overall, 28.4% of boys’ A-level entries scored an A* or A this summer, compared to 28.2% of ...

Rebecca Young, from Glasgow, designed a solar-powered backpack with an electric blanket inside to help homeless people.

About 150 people have been evacuated from a major London NHS hospital following reports of a chemical incident. Firefighters were first called at 8.49am on Thursday to Guy’s Hospital in Southwark, ...

The piece, titled BUTCHERED, was conceived specially for the protest on the Skiff platform, 45 nautical miles off the Norfolk coast.