The Office for Budget Responsibility said the state finances were facing ‘mounting risks’ in the face of growing debts.

It comes as education unions have raised concerns about the statutory tests taken by Year 6 pupils in primary schools across England.

Edinburgh and Birmingham airports have become the latest airports to allow passengers to keep liquids in their bags when going through security.

Expansion work has been rubber-stamped at a Hawick garage after it was deemed to have a “neutral” impact on the town’s rugby union ground.

More than 900 subpostmasters were wrongfully prosecuted between 1999 and 2015, with many wrongly convicted of theft and false accounting.

Tory former Cabinet minister Lord Norman Tebbit has died aged 94, his son said. The Conservative grandee was one of Margaret Thatcher’s closest political allies and played a key role in Tory politics ...

Heidi Alexander said the Government would publish estimates in March for how long the schemes will take to deliver.

Musician and producer Jordan Rakei recorded more than 50 sounds such as travellers’ footsteps, passports being stamped and aircraft engines.

Lord Tebbit won sympathy across the political spectrum after surviving the Brighton bomb that killed five people and left his wife in a wheelchair.

As Conservative Party chairman, Norman Tebbit masterminded Margaret Thatcher’s third general election victory despite tensions with the PM.

Yorkshire Water has announced hosepipe restrictions will be brought in from Friday in an effort to protect water supplies ahead of a predicted warm summer.

Gala Fairydean Rovers continued their build-up for the new season ahead of the Lowland League with a 1-0 win over Haddington Athletic at Netherdale.