Latest figures show the number dropped to 204,000 in the year to June 2025, down 69 year-on-year from 649,000.

Scottish Finance Secretary Shona Robison said the Chancellor had shown an ‘astonishing level of arrogance’ with the comment.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies’ director Helen Miller called on the Chancellor to be more ambitious about measures to boost growth.

Rachel Reeves has insisted taxes have been kept at “an absolute minimum on ordinary working people”, even as an influential think tank said low-to-middle earners would have been better off with their ...

Communities Minister Gordon Lyons also cautioned against the powersharing Executive looking at additional revenue-raising measures, stating it would target people who were already being “hammered”.

Scottish Finance Secretary Shona Robison said the Chancellor had shown an ‘astonishing level of arrogance’ with the comment.

Pope Leo XIV has arrived in Turkey on his first foreign trip. The journey fulfils the late Pope Francis’ plans to mark an important Orthodox anniversary and bring a message of peace to the region at a ...

Britain’s Got Talent star Simon Cowell has revealed he has his blood “rinsed” and “filtered” in a process he claims has helped him “age backwards”. The 66-year-old record executive said he had also ...

Bosses said the business was buoyed by a ‘recovery’ in the cycling market, warm summer weather and ‘fantastic’ sales of children’s bikes.

The death of a man whose body was found off the A90 is being treated as unexplained by police. The body was discovered between Brechin in Angus and Laurencekirk in Aberdeenshire at around 12.20pm on ...

A TRAIN company has warned of ‘significant travel disruption’ because of a strike during a prime weekend for Christmas shopping - with the ...

Take a look at all six celebrities taking part in the Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special 2025 next month as fans say line-up has 'gone downhill' ...