1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (334+ words) Scotland’s Transport Secretary has defended John Swinney’s business class flights to the World Cup. Stephen Flynn insisted it was important for the SNP leader to “be on his game” when he arrived in Boston for Scotland’s opening match. Mr Swinney…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (495+ words) A former archbishop of Canterbury has accused Nigel Farage of asserting the UK’s Christianity as a way to “channel anti-Muslim feeling”. Rowan Williams, who was the Church of England’s leading bishop for 10 years until 2012, also said he would like to…...

1+ week, 16+ hour ago   (302+ words) Ukraine has launched hundreds of drones across Russia, killing at least six people in one of Kyiv’s largest aerial attacks of the war. Russia’s Ministry of Defence said it had destroyed 822 Ukrainian drones overnight. About 600 were detected heading toward the…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (663+ words) Andy Burnham said the Government has a “long way to go to build back trust” with farmers, and that the UK needs to “guarantee our own food production going forward”. It comes as the Prime Minister unveiled a £65 million funding…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1123+ words) Nigel Farage has declared victory in the Clacton by-election, as he said the result was an “overwhelming” endorsement of him. The Reform UK leader said he had won “fairly convincingly” as counting was under way for the by-election he called…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (809+ words) Andy Burnham has urged retailers to withdraw disposable barbecues from sale in an effort to prevent wildfires as the heatwave continues. The Prime Minister urged “all retailers big and small” to pull the barbecues from their shelves as he warned…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (339+ words) US President Donald Trump has warned FIFA would be making a “terrible mistake” if it got rid of Gianni Infantino as the head of world football’s governing body. Infantino has come under pressure following his doomed plan to sell off…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (666+ words) Ukraine attacked the petroleum hub of Nizhnekamsk in central Russia’s Tatarstan region on Monday, killing 13 people and injuring 78 others, local authorities said, in one of the deadliest attacks in the country in the four-year-old war. The Ukrainian military said it…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (349+ words) Former SNP MP Joanna Cherry has hit back at Nicola Sturgeon – telling the ex Scottish first minister she is “not obsessed” with her and is open about her sexuality. Ms Cherry said the former SNP leader – who is now living…...

2+ week, 14+ hour ago   (480+ words) Russia and Ukraine have exchanged strikes overnight that killed civilians and injured many others on both sides, local authorities reported. In Russia’s border region of Belgorod, Ukrainian drones killed five people and injured two dozen others including a four-year-old boy,…...