A number of J D Wetherspoons pubs could be closing this year. It comes as the popular chain closed 26 of its venues across the nation between 2023 and 2024. However, the company is sticking with its...

Nigel Farage and Reform UK are planning a policy blitz designed to show voters they have a plan for transport, education and dealing with the cost of living - to prove they care about more than...

A new poll suggests Keir Starmer’s local elections wipeout and Indian trade deal have gone down badly with voters, showing yet another astonishing surge in support for Reform UK. Find Out Now have...

The choppy waters between North Sea oil and green energy revolution9 hours agoDouglas FraserBusiness and economy editor, ScotlandGetty ImagesThe Great Energy Transition is under way, and may come to...

Swinney will not support assisted dying in ScotlandJust nowGlenn CampbellBBC Scotland Political EditorGetty ImagesFirst Minister John Swinney has said he will not support a bill which would allow...

A defiant Nicola Sturgeon has refused to apologise for her gender policy after the Supreme Court ruled a legal definition of a woman is based on their biological sex. The former Scottish First...

Nicola Sturgeon's WhatsApp messages have been released after a four-year transparency battle, revealing feuding at the heart of the SNP. The former First Minister said she was "furious" with Health...

Nigel Farage has often been accused of hyperbole over his many audacious political claims. Some don’t, or have not yet, come true.But others do, notably the biggest of them all - Brexit. So it’s...

Singing sensation Rod Stewart has stepped in to help four-year-old Iain Gregori who is caught in a “blackhole” waiting for an autism diagnosis after a three-year wait. The Scottish government...

Ed Miliband was subjected to a jaw-dropping tirade as one of his own Labour backbenchers condemned him over a “catastrophic” decision. Scottish MP Brian Leishman tore into the Cabinet minister on...

Nicola Sturgeon and John Swinney have been savaged by members of their own party after a landmark Supreme Court ruling on transgender people. Falkirk East MSP Michelle Thomson broke ranks to demand...

Trans women expected to be excluded from all-women candidate lists1 hour agoHelen CattPolitical correspondentGetty ImagesPolitical parties are expected to be told that trans women cannot be on...

Furious Kemi Badenoch accused Sir Keir Starmer of a “shameless work of fiction” after the Government claimed it had always supported single-sex spaces for biological women. Women and equalities...