Catherine Mann, an economist and member of the Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee, has not yet opted to reduce rates.

AWARD-WINNING author and historian Dr Steven Veerapen is the guest speaker at Haddington’s History Society next Thursday.

RESIDENTS in Tranent, Macmerry and Pencaitland are being invited to help improve local walking routes. With events organised by Planning Aid Scotland, the community can suggest ideas for safer and ...

There is no “tension” between plans to make savings from limiting winter fuel allowance to the poorest pensioners and more people taking up pension credit, Liz Kendall has signalled. The winter fuel ...

Taxi driver Urfan Sharif, 42, made the admission under cross-examination as his wife Beinash Batool, 30, sobbed in the dock of the Old Bailey.

Russian forces have struck Kyiv with a sophisticated missile and drone attack for the first time in 73 days, officials said. Air raid warnings blared for hours as Russia targeted eight regions of ...

A 68-year-old man who died after a suspected assault in Newcastle has been named by police as a woman is charged with his murder. Officers received a report of a disturbance at a house on Sceptre ...

The Post Office is looking to offload 115 branches, putting around 1,000 workers at risk, with hundreds of head office roles also under threat.

DOUBLE yellow lines have been suggested in a bid to solve parking problems around a busy junction in Haddington. Councillor George McGuire described the situation on the town's Poldrate, near the ...

In his resignation statement, Mr Welby said he was quitting “in sorrow with all victims and survivors of abuse” and that the past few days had “renewed my long-felt and profound sense of shame at the ...

A man found dead at an immigration detention centre is believed to have died from unnatural causes, a coroner has said. Theophile Kaliviotis was in custody at Brook House immigration removal centre ...

Health Secretary Wes Streeting has said he believes palliative care for terminally-ill people can become good enough for that not to be a barrier to legalising assisted suicide, but he still has ...