The last crossings of the year took place on December 29, when 291 people made the journey from France in six boats.

THE Met Office has issued a new yellow warning for ice for the whole of Scotland as well as a three-day warning for snow. A snow and ice warning was originally in place for parts of the Highlands, ...

Northern Scotland is expected to be hit with snow on New Year’s Day, including Inverness, Aberdeenshire and Caithness and Sutherland in the Highlands and Moray, which are covered by a Met Office ...

A man has been arrested following an alleged incident near Glasgow on New Year's Day. It is understood that armed cops attended a 'disturbance' in the Howieshill Road area of Cambuslang at around ...

Pope Francis has ushered in 2025 with a renewed appeal for the faithful to reject abortion, calling for a “firm commitment” to protect and respect life from conception to natural death. The ...

The PA news agency’s photographers provided unrivalled coverage of the world of politics this year as these first rate images show.

A pensioner was killed in a hit-and-run crash on New Year’s Eve. A 70-year-old woman, who was a pedestrian, was struck by a car in Paisley, Renfrewshire, and died at the scene around 7pm on Tuesday.

The incident took place on Barrhead Road, near the east of the junction with Ladykirk Crescent, in Paisley at around 7pm on December 31. The 70-year-old female pedestrian was struck by a white car ...

On Wednesday morning 132 flood warnings, meaning flooding is expected, were in place for England, 10 for Wales and 32 for Scotland.

Police were called following reports of a vehicle crashing into a pedestrian in north London on Wednesday morning.

Ten people were killed and 30 others injured when a vehicle drove into a crowd in New Orleans, according to city officials. The incident happened in the city’s popular Bourbon Street area. Police ...

Seven people were killed when a strike hit a home in the Jabaliya area, and a woman and child died when another hit the Bureij refugee camp.