Great British Energy will not invest in any supply chains that involve slave labour, energy minister Michael Shanks has said, with measures to establish the state-owned energy company on the verge of ...

More than 30,000 people in the UK were infected with viruses, including HIV and hepatitis C, after receiving contaminated blood.

A BORDERS village has been connected to "lightning-fast" broadband. GoFibre announced that Ladykirk is now connected to full-fibre broadband. This means that 76 homes and businesses in the area can ...

A MAN has admitted producing cannabis with a street value of up to £900,000 at a Borders factory. Forty-seven-year-old Adriatik Abazi pleaded guilty to being involved in the cannabis cultivation at ...

The Bill, which relates to England and Wales, will come before MPs in the House of Commons on Friday for its report stage.

Three new prisons will be built starting this year, as part of a “record prison expansion”, Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood said, as the Government grapples with near-full jails.

RUGBY fans flocked to a sun-soaked Philiphaugh at the weekend for the Selkirk Sevens. Our photographer was out and about on the day and got dozens of excellent shots! Here is a selection ...

Stuart Murdoch, the lead singer of Belle and Sebastian, has joined campaigners to call for urgent action on ME (Myalgic encephalomyelitis). The singer and other people with the condition, which is ...

Mr Adams is suing the BBC over what he has called a ‘grievous smear’ that alleged he sanctioned the killing of a former Sinn Fein official.

The building is being constructed on the footprint of Henry III’s medieval Great Sacristy built in the 1250s close to the Abbey walls, and after the unveiling the Queen told the project’s architect ...

Tim FitzHigham, creative director of St George’s Guildhall in King’s Lynn, Norfolk described it as the “dry equivalent of the Mary Rose”. The theatre identified 15th century floorboards believed to ...

A group of youngsters have recently worked together to transform a once-graffiti-ridden underpass into a public art space.