THE number of reported rape crimes in North Ayrshire has risen by 4.75 per cent during the third quarter of the financial year – up to 44 from 42 last year.

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Catching Sophie Harvey’s eye to secure the £1,000 cash prize for the 2025 Rising Stars supreme overall champion, was the eleven-month-old Bernish Valentine ET bred by NI club chairman Kieran McCrory ...

It hasn't been called Ladies' Day for a few years now, but Style Wednesday will always be a day when women go that extra mile ...

The new Irvine Community Council events committee has hit the ground running since it was established back in January.

Malachi Clarke and his partner Charlie Bennett welcomed their son nearly two years ago, and want people to understand they ...

Kirkby Stephen leads the prime hogg trade, setting a new record price at 583.8p per kg. Discover how this achievement shapes the market.

I ’m avoiding getting too high on the good days and too low on the bad days,” Mitch McConnell was telling me. “Is today a ...

While the city faces many hurdles, there is much in the way of a spirit to succeed and plenty of evidence of this in all that has been achieved ...

The last Scottish Labour first minister has blasted Keir Starmer over cutting foreign aid. Jack McConnell urged the Prime Minister to rethink slashing the international development budget cut from ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The cut to the foreign aid budget announced this week will “cost lives and create chaos”, the last Labour first minister in Scotland has claimed. Lord Jack McConnell urged Number 10 to rethink ...