Stephen Flynn is hoping to win the Aberdeen Deeside and North Kincardine seat, with a number of former SNP MPs also standing for Holyrood.

A walker who had fallen near the summit of Bleaberry Fell was rescued by a Lake District mountain rescue team on bank holiday Monday.

Notorious prisoner Charles Bronson’s latest parole hearing will be held in private, a judicial Parole Board member has decided. The decision comes after one of the UK’s longest-serving prisoners – who ...

Canada’s new prime minister, Mark Carney, won the job with a promise to confront increased aggression shown by President ...

The UK and India have agreed a “landmark” trade deal that will cut tariffs and offer an exemption to some overseas workers from either country paying national insurance contributions.

A jury has retired to consider its verdicts in the trial of a Britain’s Got Talent finalist accused of raping two women. Andrew Johnston, 30, competed as a singer on the television programme in 2008, ...

The incident was reported to Cumbria Police at 2.09pm on May 6, with the collision happening towards Killington Lake Services.

A Statement on Barrow’s official social media channels, stated: “We’re excited to reveal that following an excellent month between the sticks, Wyll Stanway has been nominated for the PFA’s League Two ...

A woman accused of having an illegal abortion is “still utterly traumatised” by her experience, her barrister has said as she told jurors the facts of her client’s case “are a tragedy but they are not ...

Conservative leader Friedrich Merz has been elected as Germany’s chancellor — hours after he failed to win the first round in parliament in a historic defeat. Mr Merz, 69, who succeeds Olaf Scholz, ...

Cumbria Police would like to speak to anyone who may have seen the Co-op in Shap being broken into during the early hours of May 6.

FEARS are growing for the mental health of the county's farmers who face losing their family farms as a result of the proposed changes ...