The Justice Secretary hopes the move will also help clear the court backlog of cases waiting to be dealt with.

One in 10 homes (11%) with a household income of less than £20,000 a year already owe money to their energy supplier ahead of ...

Alex Salmond’s body will be returned from North Macedonia on a chartered plane paid for by an unnamed private individual.

Around 158,000 pupils were severely absent – missing at least half of possible school sessions – over the autumn and spring ...

United Utilities did not report at least 102 million litres of illegal sewage pollution to regulators, a BBC analysis found.

Conservative MP Chris Philp asked the Government to ‘come clean and tell the truth’ over the police escort arrangements for ...

A college will offer “bespoke support” for workers impacted by the closure of the Grangemouth refinery, the UK Government has ...

Six separate ScotRail services were cancelled on the Kyle, Far North and Inverness-Aberdeen lines on Thursday due to the ...

Counter terrorism police are investigating whether Russian spies planted a bomb in a parcel that caught fire at a delivery ...

Scotland’s richest man has been accused of greenwashing after his private jet firm made more than 1100 trips despite his ...

A new artwork to celebrate an iconic Gaelic poet is to be commissioned and displayed at the Inverness Gaelic centre – ...