Data from the Department for Education (DfE) shows that the unauthorised absence rate across state schools in England was 3.4% in the week ending December 20 – which was the last week of term. This ...

Yields on UK Government bonds – known as gilts – have jumped to levels not seen for decades amid worries over high Government borrowing and the economic outlook. This has had a knock-on effect on the ...

A celebrity osteopath who has pleaded guilty to three counts of voyeurism is under further police investigation after the discovery of more recording devices, a court has heard.

Scottish Labour abstaining in the vote on the Scottish Government’s Budget amounts to the “cheapest” deal on the tax and spending plans since devolution, the leader of the Scottish Conservatives has ...