Some 126 party backbenchers had signed an amendment that would halt the Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill in its tracks.

A MUSSELBURGH man who carried out “a flagrant breach” of a court order has been jailed for 20 months. Jaimie Laidlaw was sentenced to a non-harassment order banning him from contacting a woman or ...

Lewis Hamilton has revealed Brad Pitt’s character in the new Formula One blockbuster was based on James Hunt. F1: The Movie, of which seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton is an executive producer, ...

The US and China have signed an agreement on trade, President Donald Trump said, adding he expects to soon have a deal with India. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told Bloomberg TV that the deal was ...

Pete Roche, an Edinburgh-based independent energy policy consultant and long-time nuclear critic, discusses the future of Torness - and comes to an unequivocal conclusion. He has been policy advisor ...

Nick Carroll, chief executive of Together for Short Lives, said: “As ministers try to shift greater levels of healthcare from hospitals into communities, our amazing children’s hospices are doing more ...

The nuclear industry has warned that a green energy vision being presented by the Scottish Government is a "fraud" on the nation.

Calls have been made for Torness nuclear power station, near Dunbar, to be shut down after it emerged that an inspection found Torness’s Reactor 1 had an estimated 585 cracks in its core bricks — ...

The area inspired literary giants such as Arthur Conan Doyle and Alfred Lord Tennyson, who wrote Flower In The Crannied Wall ...

Tom Greatrex, chief executive of the Nuclear Industry Association is arguing that Torness could be the starting point for new nuclear.

DEMANDS have been made to shut Scotland's last remaining active nuclear power plant, as it emerged a third of the central part of one reactor ...

A double-decker bus carrying sixth-form college students has crashed off a road and ended up in a river, leaving three people ...