Creating a new threshold and means test would allow households not on pension credit to apply directly for winter fuel payments. Raising it 20% above the pension credit threshold would cost around ...

The bilateral relationship is at its lowest point since South Africa enforced its apartheid system of racial segregation, which ended in 1994.

Northern Ireland’s legacy body received advice around a potential move to enable victims and perpetrators to meet where there is a desire to, a Westminster committee has heard. Sir Declan Morgan, ...

SDLP leader Claire Hanna pressed the UK government to call a public inquiry into the murder of the GAA official.

A half a billion-pound plan to transform a huge, long-term derelict site into a housing, leisure and business development has been unveiled ...

Here is everything you need to know as the BBC's The Repair Shop on the Road comes to places like Dumfries and Galloway in Scotland ...

A PROMINENT Scottish Greens activist is challenging Patrick Harvie for the top spot in the Glasgow list in the 2026 Holyrood election ...

A SCOTTISH Labour MP held a “secretive” meeting with lobbyists working for private health care and drug companies, The National can reveal.

Immigration rights lawyers have said the deportations violated a court order against sending people to countries other than their homelands.

The Government will send £4 million worth of aid to Gaza as it ramps up pressure on the Israeli government to lift a blockade on the region. The aid will include essential medicines, safe drinking ...

THE Scottish Government claimed that releasing information about a top minister’s secret meeting with an Israeli official would ...

The leader of a new Troubles legacy body has insisted that it is focused on and capable of uncovering the unvarnished truth for victims and survivors. Sir Declan Morgan, chief commissioner of the ...