The most recent study that PA could identify suggests 47% of inmates say they grew up with both parents. Different research into young offenders has found that as many as 76% had an “absent father”.

Four Provisional IRA members – Kevin Barry O’Donnell, 21, Sean O’Farrell, 23, Peter Clancy, 19, and Daniel Vincent, 20 – were shot dead by the soldiers minutes after they had carried out a gun attack ...

Chris Loye, who grew up in the Benslie Village area, was recently named as a finalist in ScotHot's Scottish Chef of the Year contest for 2025. Now living away from the area, he received the nod ...

The comments marked a departure from recent rebukes of Mr Zelensky by Mr Trump that appeared to indicate an abrupt deterioration of relations.

Catherine Sayer, leader of Tandridge District Council, said that a total of six households had been permitted to return to their homes.

The Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards has launched an investigation into MP Andrew Gwynne. Mr Gwynne was sacked as a minister and suspended from the Labour Party earlier this month after the ...

Hadi Matar faces up to 25 years in jail if convicted of attempted murder and assault over the attack on the Satanic Verses author.

A mother has been found guilty of murdering her two young sons. Kara Alexander, 47, of Dagenham, east London, was accused of murdering Elijah Thomas, two, and Marley Thomas, five, in the bath at their ...

ONE quarter of the council tax raised in North Ayrshire in this financial year will be spent paying back public-private partnership (PPP) deals for new schools, the Scottish Parliament heard this week ...

The wife of TV star Charles Hanson would tell him every year on the anniversary of their son’s death that it was his fault because of a “hug” he gave her, a court has heard.

The Met Office has warned of possible flooding for parts of the UK as heavy rain and strong winds are forecast for the weekend ahead.

Ashley Dale, 28, was killed when a gunman forced his way into her home following a feud between her attackers and her boyfriend Lee Harrison.