Cancer Research UK warned that, despite improvement in overall survival, many more people are being diagnosed with cancer compared with 50 years ago.

The programme for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe has been launched, including more than 3,350 shows across 265 venues. Comedy, music, dance, children’s shows, magic and cabaret will all be part of the ...

The discovery of the wild-grown seedling marks success for efforts to bring the incredibly rare species back from the brink of extinction.

Analysis of stop and search data showed a child aged just 10 was among those found with a knife or pointed weapon by Police Scotland last year.

The sale features more than 430 examples of music, animation, comics and gaming memorabilia as well as contemporary and street art pieces.

A women’s centre founded by JK Rowling is hosting a conference on the impact of internet pornography in the “epidemic” of violence against women.

Councils will put strict requirements in place before ‘socially necessary’ routes can be changed or cancelled, the Department for Transport said.

Gang leaders who force vulnerable people to hide drugs and cash in their bodies could face up to 10 years in prison under a change in the law.

The government has faced calls to take action on ghost number plates, such as increasing the fine when caught with one ...

Madeleine, then aged three, disappeared in 2007 while on holiday with her family in the resort of Praia da Luz in Portugal.

The lady’s slipper orchid came close to vanishing from the English countryside, with its discovery described as a “truly thrilling moment”.