Its stores in the 1990s were bright and inviting places with staff who seemed genuinely to enjoy their jobs, and it prospered all the more in Scotland after in 1998 acquiring the retail operations ...

A much more condign sobriquet for Mr Swinney would be ‘John of the Dead’. The First Minister ... much of the fact that no other politician in Scotland had served longer at the highest levels ...

It is believed the ritual echoes the cremation ceremonies of great Norse leaders. Alex Macleod, chief executive at Stornoway Port Authority who was invited to take part in the event, said ...

Ireland bore the brunt of the storm first, as it was hit with wind gusts of 183km/h, the strongest since World War II, as a winter storm spiraled in from the Atlantic before hitting Scotland.

The rapid-fire assault of now classic pop-punk hits that follow is introduced by a leather-jacketed Kevin Kennedy, aka Coronation Street’s Curly Watts. Kennedy’s musical roots in Manchester ...

One in five flights were cancelled and all trains halted in Scotland. Every school in Northern Ireland was closed as the storm damaged buildings and tore down trees. An amber wind warning remains ...

In the UK, wind gusts of 100mph have been recorded in Drumalbin in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, the Met Office said. Earlier red warnings for wind covered the entirety of Ireland and Northern Ireland.

Work was underway to remove hundreds of trees blocking roads and railway lines in the wake of the system, named Storm Éowyn (pronounced AY-oh-win) by weather authorities. In Ireland, wind snapped ...

Councils must reform "at a pace and depth we've not yet seen" to avoid facing unsustainable losses, Scotland's public finance watchdog has warned. The Accounts Commission urged local authorities ...

Red warnings for wind cover the entirety of Ireland and parts of Scotland as the storm brings staggering winds that pose a danger to life. Trains and flights across the UK face cancellation or ...