A 33-year-old man charged in connection with the incident is scheduled to appear at Ayr Sheriff Court on Monday.

Ireland’s deputy premier is to appeal for “calm” and “measured” EU co-operation ahead of a major tariff announcement by US President Donald Trump expected on Wednesday. Tanaiste Simon Harris is due to ...

World Cup-winning former footballer Cesc Fabregas and Google DeepMind co-founder Sir Demis Hassabis have been added to the line-up for the SXSW (South By Southwest) London conference.

A gender gap in barriers to cycling has widened in the past seven years, a new survey suggests. Cycling UK, the charity which commissioned the poll of 2,204 UK adults, said infrastructure investment ...

A British explorer has become the first woman to solo traverse across Canada’s freezing Baffin Island a day earlier than expected. Camilla Hempleman-Adams battled temperatures as low as minus 40C and ...

The device, known as N-Tidal Diagnose, uses carbon dioxide sensors to measure changes in a patient’s lung function with results given in minutes.

The health department has announced that it has reached an agreement with Community Pharmacy England for a funding increase over two years.

Employers should give workers time off to attend potentially lifesaving cancer screening, the outgoing head of the NHS has said. Amanda Pritchard, who ends her tenure as NHS England chief executive on ...

Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey has vowed to replace the Conservatives as the “party of Middle England”, as he launches his local election campaign. The Lib Dems are hoping to erode the ...

Citizens Advice said those on the lowest incomes were ‘already stretched to breaking point’ even before ‘awful April’ bill rises take effect.

Sir Keir Starmer and Donald Trump discussed “productive negotiations” towards a UK-US economic prosperity deal and agreed they will “continue at pace” in a phone call on Sunday night, Downing Street ...

Sir Keir Starmer and US President Donald Trump have agreed on the need to “keep up the collective pressure on Putin” during a phone call, Downing Street said.