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Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor first royal to be arrested in centuries

Scottish small company fortunes rebound after 2025 ‘freefall’

Autumn breaks have never been so affordable

These 80 hotels are offering rooms for £50 - full list of locations

Caledonian Sleeper

Caledonian sleeper announces new stop off at Birmingham

It comes as stubble is most popular in the West Midlands

Leicester is the moustache capital of the UK

Cash gift is the most popular way to mark the announcement of their children’s grades - according to parents

Parents plan to dish out nearly £500 to celebrate teens' exam results

Chris Thoroughgood, Director at Austin Consultants

Scotland bucks UK manufacturing decline, grows 31% in last decade

Tim Cooper

Overdue invoices top 1.8 million in Scotland as pressure mounts, R3 research sho...

Jo Morris

A year on from a new government: small business growth forecasts in Scotland cra...

Glad student has curly hair holds notebook uses mobile phone for surfing internet reads ideas for project dressed casually poses outdoor.

GCSE results go digital: Over 95,000 UK students set to receive grades via App i...

When local vision meets national support, great things can happen, says Dean Cook

Powering growth and shaping industrial future

Rachel Reeves announces a £15.6bn cash pot to invest in Northern transport.

Rachel Reeves' £15.6bn pledge to transform Northern transport

Photographed at the Enterprise Ireland Business Leaders Dinner in Glasgow are (L to R) Emma Farrell, Senior Market Advisor UK CreaTech Sector, Enterprise Ireland; Pat Stack, Head of Business Development & Marketing at Uniquely; Minister Niamh Smyth TD, Minister of State for Trade Promotion, Artificial Intelligence and Digital Transformation; and Joe Healy, Head of Global Markets, Enterprise Ireland.

Ireland’s leading customer service and sales outsourcing partner, Uniquely annou...

Joanna Morris, Novuna Business Finance

Scottish small businesses defy geo-politics market uncertainty

A lone tree stands above a limestone pavement at night in the Yorkshire Dales National Park near Malham.

The UK Dark Sky Discovery Sites to view seven-planet parade

Rain and wind are expected today

Met Office map shows where 70mph winds could hit UK

71 per cent have sneakily inhaled nicotine where they shouldn’t have

Top 20 places smokers and vapers have had an illicit puff

An estate agent's "sold" board stands outside a residential building.

Watch: Map shows the areas where house prices are rising the fastest

Strong winds forecast as Storm Éowyn to hit the UK.

Watch: Met Office expands yellow wind warning for UK

The now open runways at Manchester Airport.

Watch: Met Office issues new snow and ice warnings

Family play on snow covered hill.

Watch: Weather map shows how wintry showers will affect UK tonight

Driving in the snow.

Watch: Map shows how snow, sleet and rain will move across UK tonight

Car drives along snowy road.

Watch: Further snow possible - where and when it could snow next

Snow falls in Basingstoke.

Watch: Airports close as snow blankets roads and cars across the UK

Stock image of car being pushed out of snow.

Watch: Snow map shows when and where snow will fall tonight

Stock image of snow in Yorkshire.

Watch: Rare amber health alert issued as 40cm of snow possible

Strong winds are expected to hit the UK.

Watch: Met Office issues yellow weather warnings for wind and rain

A couple in a boat on the River Thames at Richmond upon Thames, one of the happiest places in Britain, according to Rightmove

Revealed: The 5 happiest places to live in Scotland in 2024

Parts of Pontypridd, South Wales, have been left submerged in water as the River Taff bursts its banks.

Watch: Residents bail out their flooded homes after heavy rainfall

A gritter on the Glenshane Pass in the Sperrin Mountains of County Londonderry.

Watch: Weather warnings including amber area where power cuts likely

Fresh yellow weather warnings have been issued for Scotland covering Saturday and Sunday

Scotland to be hit by heavy snow and rain as new warnings declared

The missing cat, from Cumbernauld near Glasgow, has stunned its owners after disappearing before turning up 300 miles away in Coventry. Picture: Cats Protection/PA Wire

'A miracle': Missing Scottish cat found 300 miles away from home

Alex and Sue Tatham on their wedding day with Cilla Black.

Watch: Blind Date's first couple to marry renew vows 33 years later

Royal Bank of Scotland’s latest growth tracker also paints an optimistic picture for the months ahead, with confidence levels hitting an 18-month high.

Why Scottish business confidence is at an 18-month high

Flames and smoke pour from roof of factory building.

Watch: Flames and smoke pour from roof of factory building

Ross Watson alongside his wife Annika.

Watch: IVF miracle baby born metres apart from his future wife

Derek Burwell, 83, spends 30 years building miniature railway in garden.

Grandad spends 30 years building miniature railway in garden

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Symptoms and signs to look out for in recent rise of Measles

Analysis Where the election will be won and lost: The seats to watch

Dean Cook is Innovate UK’s Executive Director for Place and Levelling Up

Co-creative model could drive locally-led growth - Dean Cook

The most competitive UK regions revealed

Baby southern white rhino Malaika with 15-year-old mum, Keyah, at West Midlands Safari Park

Watch: Adorable baby rhino takes first steps
Watch as an adorable baby rhino - born at a UK safari park - takes its first wobbly steps

Measles cases are on the rise - and health officials fear many children are not vaccinated against it. (Picture: RCPCH and NHS)

Children forced to isolate as measles becomes "national incident"

Martinho De Sousa (L), Tireq McIntosh (C), Kian Durnin (R) have been jailed for a total of 69 years for shooting children in a Wolverhampton playground. Picture: West Midlands Police

Dramatic moment gunmen who shot children in playground were arrested

The home in Sandringham Avenue in Walsall which was built without planning permission - and must now be torn down Picture: SWNS

'Monster mansion' with no planning permission has to be demolished

Parent Power 2024: The Times releases its list of Best UK schools & league table

The Sunday Times releases Parent Power 2024 UK guide

Sussex spaniel Elton, who has recovered from paralysis, with veterinary physiotherapist Holly Finelli and master dog trainer Graeme Hall

Heartwarming video shows paralysed puppy learning to walk again

Dex Lee (Bear), Dido Miles (Emma) and Ashley Rice (Sid) are just some of the excellent regulars on Doctors (Picture: BBC Pictures)

Scotsman Passions: I'm feeling sick at the demise of Doctors

A Black Country boozer called The Tilted Barrel where pool balls 'roll uphill' is now Britain's wonkiest pub following the loss of the Crooked House.

Britain’s newly crowned ‘wonkiest pub’ set to go on auction

Cops received a call from a member of the public that a 12 foot yellow python was slithering on Harwood Street, West Bromwich.

Terrifying moment 12ft python spotted slithering along UK street

How Scotland ranks in the latest Tiga research.

Scotland key hub as UK video games studio numbers surge

Carl Falconer who has been going to The Tilted Barrel pub for about 40 years.

Inside Britain’s new wonkiest pub The Tilted Barrel

Shocking footage shows young children being played on the tracks

Watch: Terrifying risks recorded on level crossings

Fire crews at The Crooked House pub

Britain’s ‘wonkiest pub’ catches fire one month after break-in

Iain Hughes went missing during a charity swim in the English Channel

Breaking Body found in search for firefighter missing in English Channel

Heartbreaking footage shows 11-month-old moggy Bella hooked up to tubes and a heart monitor after coming into contact with a lily, which are highly poisonous to cats.

Poisoned cat ‘died for 26 minutes’ after brush with popular flower

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Scotland has failed to meet its latest target for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, the latest official figures show. Picture: John Giles/PA Wire

Fail: Scotland misses climate target

Pro-independence protesters with Scottish Saltire flags (top) march for Scottish independence. Picture: Andy Buchanan/AFP via Getty Images

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