A child rapist who abused underage girls before confessing to police more than 20 years later died in prison of “natural causes”.

The pair were confounded by the black blocking a cluster of reds over the corner pocket as frame 14 lasted an hour and 40 minutes.

Willie Mullins once again dominated on the penultimate day of the Punchestown Festival but it was Lossiemouth who lit up Friday’s action in the Boodles Champion Hurdle.

A radio station is offering people £25,000 if they can help find a historic Glasgow artefact stolen from one of the city’s ...

The First Minister has convened a security meeting with Police Scotland after the UK’s national threat level was raised from substantial to severe. John Swinney said he was also engaged with the ...

Mr Trump has since repeatedly pressured US media network ABC to sack Kimmel, and in a post to Truth Social on Thursday he wrote: “When is ABC Fake News Network firing seriously unfunny Jimmy Kimmel, ...

John Swinney’s intervention on whisky tariffs formed a “very big part” of Donald Trump’s decision to scrap them, the US president said in a note to Scotland’s First Minister. The pair spoke for nine ...

A shaky three-week ceasefire between the US and Iran appears to be still holding though both countries have traded ...

Temperatures soared in parts of the UK on Friday but forecasters have warned the weather may take a turn for the worse over the bank holiday weekend. A high of 25.4C for the day was recorded at both ...

Ancient Egypt has been cut from 66-1 to 33-1 for the Derby by Paddy Power. The William Haggas-trained Earth Shot may be destined for bigger things after a comfortable victory in the Darley EBF Maiden ...

An alleged murder victim died as a result of blunt force trauma to his head and neck after a “forceful assault” involving multiple blows, a ...

Opening evidence from the prosecution continues on day 5 of the trial into the alleged murder of Luke Harden in Bacup last year.