The Cheshire countrywoman and BBC Midlands journalist, Beccy Harper, talks to influential members of the rural community ...

A TRUST supporting more than 6,000 pupils has been shortlisted for a national education award. The Wade Deacon Trust was named as a finalist for Multi-Academy Trust of the Year and reached the final ...

A DAD controlled his partner’s life for more than four years, leaving her in fear of him. Peter Presland would message his victim constantly while she was out demanding to know who she was with. And ...

A gunman dressed in black killed at least two people and wounded nine others at Brown University on Saturday during final exams on the Ivy League campus and police were searching for the suspect, ...

Homes and businesses in parts of northern England and south-west Scotland are likely to become flooded on Sunday and Monday.

Police were still searching for a suspect or suspects, according to alerts issued through the university’s emergency notification system.

Specialist rape and sex offences investigators will be introduced to every police force as part of reforms to be introduced under the Government’s violence against women and girls (Vawg) strategy.

The Met Office has issued an amber weather warning for very heavy and persistent rain in parts of southern and south-west Scotland on Sunday.

The Royal Household teamed up with Royal Mail to send a red post box bearing the King’s cypher to a remote British research station.

In Ukraine, Russia launched overnight drone and missile strikes on five Ukrainian regions, targeting energy and port infrastructure.

The cast of Line Of Duty knew the show had one more season in it, Martin Compston has said, as he gets set to film its seventh series. The Scot, who plays anti-corruption officer Steve Arnott, said he ...

Hamnet tells the story of Shakespeare’s marriage to his wife, who is named Agnes in the film, and the tumult that follows the death of the couple’s young son. Agnes is played by Irish actress and ...