Sean Ward, 27, was sentenced to seven months after his "barbaric and horrific" activities were discovered by the Scottish SPCA.

Joseph McCann, 32, is being hunted by cops after two women, both in their 20s, were grabbed off the street and bundled into a people carrier in separate attacks on the same day.

There is a paragraph in the BBC’s impartiality code that has, to coin a phrase, become a part that is more than the sum of its whole. It reads: “We are committed to reflecting a wide range of opinion across our output as a whole and over an appropriate timeframe ...

A worrying report from the Social Mobility Commission has found that social mobility hasn’t changed since 2014. Its State of the Nation investigation concluded that inequality will remain in society unless the Government takes urgent action to change the status quo. The Prime Minister, Theresa May, pledged to tackle the ...

Those exposed to neonicotoids - the world's most common insect repellant - muster only a third of their normal distance, according to the study

Theresa May will become the first Conservative leader in the party's history to face a grassroots vote to oust her after rank and file activists forced an Emergency General Meeting to discuss the party’s leadership. The Prime Minister is set to be hauled in front of a meeting of 800 ...

Warming surface water is rapidly destroying the north west sector of Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf, say scientists

Leave or remain? That is the question, once again. But this time it’s not in an advisory referendum that attracts 46,500,001 members of the great British public, but one that involves a more niche group of people – the bankers. Indeed, financial institutions the world over have had to plan and ...

The two males and one female – who cannot be named for legal reasons – were targeted by paedophile Ian Samson at Lord and Lady Polworth Children’s House in Edinburgh.