Former footballer Joey Barton found guilty of assaulting his wife

"You come at the king, you best not miss," says Omar Little, channelling Machiavelli, in the US crime series The Wire.

Flawed data has been used repeatedly to dismiss claims about "Asian grooming gangs", Baroness Louise Casey has said in a new report, as she called for a new...

For the first time ever a woman has been appointed the head of the UK's Secret Intelligence Service.

Winter fuel payments for pensioners in Scotland will be no less than those being paid south of the border by the UK government, John Swinney has confirmed.

An athletics coach has been cleared of abusing his Olympic gold medallist son Jakob Ingebrigtsen - in a high-profile trial that gripped Norway.