First Minister John Swinney has chaired a meeting of the Scottish Government’s Resilience Room (SGoRR) after homes were ...

Those living in homes around Nethy Bridge were told to evacuate as a precaution on Friday night, as the situation around the wildfire at Cairngorms National Park deteriorated. Changing wind conditions ...

Ukrainian forces have attacked tourist resorts in the partly Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia region, killing eight people, Moscow-installed officials said, while authorities in Ukraine’s Sumy region ...

A French foreign minister has urged tourists not to cancel their travel plans despite unprecedented wildfires in the ...

Authorities in France have evacuated some suburbs of Bordeaux as a massive wildfire shifted toward the city. The prefect of the Gironde region ordered the evacuation in the early hours of Saturday, ...

Axel Rudakubana was given a life sentence for the murders of Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot ...

Evacuations and smoke advisories have continued after Police Scotland declared a major incident as emergency services battle ...

First Minister John Swinney has said the Cairngorms National Park wildfire is still a “very serious situation”. Police Scotland declared a major incident on Friday night and homes around Nethy Bridge ...

A major incident was declared and residents evacuated after fertiliser exploded during a blaze which engulfed industrial ...

Five police officers who were injured in a boat crash in central London were responding to a report of a “person in the water”, the Metropolitan Police has said. A boat from the force’s marine ...