An "enormously important" 18th Century painting by the Scottish artist Katherine Read has been uncovered by the BBC's Fake or Fortune. The portrait was brought to the programme's team wrapped in a ...

The blaze is currently affecting an area of roughly 1,000m by 800m (3,300 ft by 2,600 ft) About 80 firefighters are battling ...

Electricity bills in Alderney are due to be subsidised for the rest of the year after the cost of a barrel of crude oil ...

A police officer who took his own life earlier this year was a violent rapist and sex offender who targeted multiple women over a number of years, reports have revealed.