The Scottish Secretary is to visit the Navantia UK yard in Methil, Fife, on Tuesday, where the £8 million 1,400 tonne barge is being built.

Ministers are also said to be mulling over plans to place a retirement age of 80 on members of the House of Lords.

Reform UK, which has sought to gain from public dissatisfaction about migration, will reveal its plans to tackle the small boats crisis.

A British explorer is attempting to travel the full length of one of the longest rivers in the world. Ash Dykes, 34, will journey 3,400 miles (5,400km) along China’s Yellow River, from its source to ...

Young people are being left at risk of drowning because of the “terrifying” closure of swimming pools over the past decade, a union has warned. The GMB union said its research backed up a study which ...

Mr Farage described international treaties governing human rights law as ‘malign influences’ which had been ‘allowed to ...

Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner said the New Homes Accelerator was ‘breaking down the barriers’ stopping new homes from being built.

Immigration officials have said they plan to deport Abrego Garcia to Uganda, which recently agreed to a deal to accept ...

Elon Musk has targeted Apple and OpenAI in a lawsuit alleging that the iPhone maker and the ChatGPT maker are teaming up to thwart competition in artificial intelligence (AI).

Foreign Secretary David Lammy said he was ‘horrified’ by the attack on Nasser Hospital, in the south of the Gaza Strip.

A man has been charged under the Terrorism Act for allegedly showing support for a proscribed organisation following a pro-Palestine protest in Edinburgh. The protest took place outside St Leonard’s ...

Wales and Northern Ireland have recorded their warmest August bank holiday Mondays on record – but wet weather is on the way. Temperatures reached 29.1C in the village of Hawarden in Flintshire and 24 ...