Chao Xu, 33, of Greenwich, pleaded guilty to 24 sexual offences over the course of three years including rape, sexual assault and upskirting.

Three friends have made it over the finish line as they cycled a stretch of their journey in Chile which was impassable in 1985.

The log boats to go on display are a Middle Bronze Age 6.3m oak vessel, which has areas of charring inside; a 2.2m fragment ...

The Digibete platform is now being used by more than 3,000 people across Scotland following a ‘highly successful’ scale-up ...

Louise Gilmour, GMB Scotland secretary, has written to Rachel Reeves to urge her to cut the levy – which was placed on the industry by the last government and extended since Labour took office last ...

Irn-Bru has said it will guarantee a white Christmas for at least one lucky household this year, ahead of the soft drink’s annual festive advert airing this Sunday. Irn-Bru plans to create “a full ...

The late Professor Peter Higgs has gifted his Nobel Prize medal to the university where he proposed a ground-breaking idea that would change scientists’ understanding of the universe.

An 82-year-old recently diagnosed with a brain tumour and given just a few months to live has urged policy and lawmakers to have “compassion” and not allow their “biases” to get in the way of ...

The Bill was narrowly approved by MPs in the House of Commons earlier this year, and received an unopposed second reading in the Lords in September.

The Met Office says a large swathe of central and southern England and Wales will be soaked on Friday into Saturday.

The country’s drought situation remains ‘precarious’ despite recent rainfall, and could be facing a drier than normal three months to January.

The BBC is awaiting a response from Donald Trump, after the corporation apologised for the editing of a speech by the US president which appeared on Panorama in 2024.