Peter Fotheringham, the former director of finance at Dundee University, was giving evidence to MSPs on Holyrood’s Education Committee.

The leaders also underlined their ‘ironclad commitment’ to Nato’s collective security guarantee – ‘that an attack on one is an attack ...

Shadow chancellor Sir Mel Stride warned that ‘tax rises are coming’ in this autumn’s budget, opposite Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner.

CUMBRIA Police are concerned for the welfare of a 44-year-old Ambleside man. Owen Lancaster was last known to be in the Lancaster area on Monday afternoon (June 23) but has not returned home. He is ...

ROCKY Clark might have been on the wrong end of the final score in the Gill Burns Women’s County Championship Division 1 but there was ...

Harrington is perhaps mostly known for the long and distinguished career of star two-mile chaser Moscow Flyer and the subsequent blue riband win of Sizing John, but she has also made her mark on the ...

A man in his 40s has been arrested following a two car collision at a roundabout at Tebay. The A685 in both directions was closed due to the accident between M6 J38 and The Orton turn off (Gaisgill), ...

Cumbrian firefighters worked through the night after a blaze broke out at a derelict terraced house in Brown Street in Barrow in Barrow in Furness.

Campaigner Sue Pentel was speaking as she arrived at Musgrave Street police station for a pre-arranged interview.

Rotherham Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has apologised and said the care provided to some patients was ‘not at the level we strive for’.

Annabel Rook, 46, was found with multiple stab wounds in the living room of a house in Dumont Road, Stoke Newington, north-east London, on June 17.

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