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

The AA, which issued the advice, warned that the low-lying sun causes visibility problems for motorists when sunlight reflects off wet roads. The clocks go back by an hour at 2am on Sunday, which will ...

Co-op is inviting people to come together and share their ideas for building a stronger community. The event will take place at the Co-op Food store on Main Street in Kilwinning on Friday, October 24, ...

Local businesses have been urged to participate in Scottish Careers Week. From November 10 to 14, various activities and events will take place across Ayrshire as part of the campaign, led by Skills ...

Christmas Island National Park acting manager Alexia Jankowski said on Thursday there were up to 200 million of the endemic ...

The European Union has agreed on a new raft of sanctions against Russia, targeting its shadow fleet of oil tankers and ...

Ireland uses a system of transferable votes in elections but – with only three candidates on the ballot – there can only be a maximum of two counts. If the gap between Ms Humphreys and Ms Connolly ...

Plaid Cymru has defeated Reform UK in a fiercely-fought Welsh Parliament by-election, with defending party Labour trailing in third. Nigel Farage’s party was hoping to win its first seat at the ballot ...

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 polls have closed in a crucial Welsh by-election. The votes are being counted in Caerphilly after weeks of fierce campaigning by parties hoping to win the Welsh Parliament constituency from Labour ...

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 ...