A MAN left a father in a critical condition in hospital after a single punch caused multiple bleeds on the brain, a fractured skull and eye sockets. Michael Hitchings, aged 36, of Michael Crescent, ...

Parties from across the political spectrum have said they will not contest the Clacton by-election sparked by the Reform leader’s resignation.

The future queen hiked the highest mountains in Scotland, England and Wales within 24 hours at the end of June.

Team Scotland’s netball stars Hannah Leighton and Niamh McCall are looking forward to becoming allies after spending the last Netball Super ...

A Paralympic champion two years ago, the 26-year-old struggled with motivation until the prospect of a home Games was announced after the Australian state of Victoria withdrew its agreement to host ...

Stirling’s swimming ace Angharad Evans is hungry to win medals for her adopted home, and give back to the country that has ‘made her ...

You might think being the first Scottish woman in the Team GB gymnastics team would weigh heavily on Crystelle Lake’s shoulders, but not ...

After a couple of years blighted by a persistent shoulder injury, Keana MacInnes is fit and ready to battle for Commonwealth gold this summer.

Three people were killed across Ukraine in overnight Russian attacks, including one in Kyiv, where powerful explosions hit ...

The healthcare workers at the epicentre of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Ebola outbreak are walking off their jobs ...

Donald Trump has said the ceasefire with Iran “is over” after it came under increasing strain with new US strikes overnight. The US president said ahead of Wednesday’s Nato summit in Turkey that it ...

Presumptive prime minister Andy Burnham has been urged to end the windfall tax on oil and gas if he enters Downing Street.