We will stay here in Congo and fight. If we do not stay alive here, let’s stay dead here,’ said Congo’s defence minister.

Leading racehorse owner John Hales has died at the age of 85. Hales, who made his money through the Golden Bear Toys company he co-founded in 1979, which went on to produce products from major ...

Police forces need to make decisions locally on how many officers to have, a minister has said after some warned of funding pressures. Policing minister Dame Diana Johnson said she was “not pretending ...

Chelsea agreed a world-record deal to sign USA defender Naomi Girma for around £900,000 and also signed Keira Walsh from Barcelona on deadline day.

Efforts are continuing to free a whale which has become entangled in a rope at a fish farm off the Isle of Skye. A member of the public spotted the humpback in difficulty and contacted British Divers ...

Three appeal judges ruled a week ago that the judges involved in historic family court proceedings concerning Sara could be named.

Henrietta and Eliza Huszti, 32, vanished on January 7 in Aberdeen and were last seen near the River Dee at 2am.

“Mistakes were made by the previous government,” a shadow cabinet minister has said, after Kemi Badenoch appeared to slap down her own shadow foreign secretary over immigration figures.

Former world champion Michael Smith has revealed he is suffering from arthritis in his right hand and is set to see a specialist. Smith’s form has dropped off rapidly since winning the world title in ...

But in an interview with the Scotsman podcast The Steamie, John Swinney expressed his worries over a rise in “populism” ahead of the vote, saying he would not work with Reform in the way he has with ...

Trainer Declan Queally admitted he had initially contemplated waiting until the Boyne Hurdle at Navan on February 9 for Rocky’s Diamond, but is pleased his gamble “paid dividends” as he prepares for ...