GfK’s long-running Consumer Confidence Index increased by two points in October – although it still languishes at minus 17.

The SNP’s Westminster leader and Aberdeen South MP has urged the Government to act “swiftly” on the issue as the scandal surrounding Andrew’s friendship with the late paedophile Jeffrey Epstein and ...

Ms Kyei said she was ‘delighted that someone in the public sector and financial services is being recognised in this way’.

Rachel Reeves has been urged to freeze alcohol duty on whisky in a bid to save jobs and boost the economy. GMB Scotland, one of the largest unions in the industry, has written to the Chancellor ...

Among the political names mentioned in the race for the Aras were Taoiseach Michael Martin, former taoiseach Bertie Ahern, Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald, Northern Ireland First Minister Michelle ...

Heather Humphreys is a Presbyterian who was raised on a rural farm near the border and became a popular minister who made a bid for the Irish presidency. The 64-year-old mother-of-two met her husband ...

The Prime Minister will announce that a UK missile-building programme has been accelerated to deliver an extra 140 air defence missiles this winter.

The Scottish Affairs Committee also said the Scottish and UK governments should have acted sooner to prepare for job losses at Grangemouth.

Projections from this summer showed the Ministry of Defence (MoD) was set to spend £2.6 billion more this year than agreed with the Treasury. The department was seeking cost-saving measures such as ...

Ministers have not provided evidence economic growth from expanding airports provides enough benefit to outweigh environmental harm, a report says.

Tech companies are not doing enough to combat mobile phone theft, MPs have said as they urged the Home Secretary to take a “robust stance” on the issue.