Bus passengers could be banned from playing loud music under proposals to change the law set out by the Tories. Commuters on train journeys could also benefit from tougher enforcement of existing ...

A record half a million people have received a dementia diagnosis on the NHS, figures show. NHS figures published this week show 506,549 people have received a formal dementia diagnosis, compared with ...

A man who died after suffering serious head injuries in a “workplace accident” at a funfair has been named by police. Emergency services rushed to the Spanish City Summer Funfair in Whitley Bay in ...

Some of the biggest names in the music world have played in Ayrshire over the years - but has anyone ever topped the legendary Frank Sinatra?

This week, we take a look at the seven ghosts haunting Culzean Castle, a spectre-ridden former mental hospital and some spooky events in a famous pub ...

The sisters from war-torn Sudan are the latest known victims of a Mediterranean migration route that has claimed more than 30,000 lives since 2014.

IT'S now 25 years since Ballochmyle Hospital closed its doors for the final time. For 60 years, the once-buzzing medical facility near Catrine had cared for local residents. But in summer 2000, the ...

The team at Cumnock Heritage Centre want to continue expanding their vintage collections and preserve them for years to come.

Israeli airstrikes hit Yemen’s capital just days after Houthi rebels fired a missile toward Israel that its military ...

The Home Secretary wants to give a new adjudication panel the power to decide asylum appeals to speed up the process.

The festival began early on Sunday with the J’ouvert celebration where people covered each other in paint, coloured powder and chocolate.

Jerry Adler, who spent decades behind-the-scenes of storied Broadway productions before pivoting to acting in his 60s, has died at 96. Adler died on Saturday, according to a brief family announcement ...