Provisional Met Office statistics confirm that summer 2025 is officially the warmest summer on record for the UK.

It is understood an investigation will look at whether Paul Bean of Durham council breached civil service code A local councillor for Reform UK who works for the Home Office processing asylum and immigration claims has been suspended from his job while an investigation is carried out, the Guardian has learned. Paul Bean, who serves as a councillor for Crook ward at Durham county council, declared his day job as a civil servant at the Home Office in his register of interests. Continue reading...

Far-right protesters in Perth opposing asylum seekers in a local hotel were outnumbered 2-to-1 by anti-racism campaigners

Scotland needs a "credible response" to combat the rising tide of violent crime not "quick-fix sticking plaster measures", a top cop has warned. The president of the Association of Scottish Police Superintendents, Rob Hay, asked "how bad does it have to get" before policing is able to mount an effective fightback. Chief Superintendent Hay says the public are seeing crime - "in particular violent crime" - rising on the streets and in their communities.

Outcry grows after multiple trans users were targeted for mild criticisms of the anti-trans billionaire.

Residents of a south Wales town are under investigation after they mistook a youth group visiting a summer camp for an influx of asylum seekers.

A teenager who spoke of carrying out a mass shooting at an Edinburgh school has been jailed. Felix Winter, aged 18 years, was today sentenced to six years in prison for Terrorism offences, at the High Court in Glasgow. Assistant Chief Constable Stuart Houston said:“This was an extremely complex and fast-moving investigation, and I want to take this opportunity to pay tribute to the diligence and hard work of the officers who worked tirelessly to gather the evidence and bring the perpetrator to justice.