Counting has begun in the Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse Holyrood by-election. Ballot boxes arrived from across the constituency at around 10.15pm, before being rolled out across the counting room ...

The British Council has meanwhile been barred from Russia, as tensions between Moscow and the West continue to deepen.

Polls have closed in the Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse by-election. Counting is expected to start imminently at South Lanarkshire Council’s headquarters in Hamilton, with the SNP hoping to hold on ...

The Conservative leader is expected to set out her plans for a commission about whether the UK should leave the European Convention on Human Rights.

Combs was warned by the judge in his sex trafficking trial that he would be kicked out of the courtroom if he kept ‘nodding vigorously’ at ...