US President Donald Trump says he is directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a California island.

The Scottish First Minister will unveil his government’s programme for the coming year in a keynote statement to Holyrood on Tuesday.

The Scottish First Minister said he would make his position clear ahead of a key vote on the proposed legislation on May 13.

It said more than 600 of its 2,400 UK venues will receive investment funds to make improvements over the next year.

They will have prime spots to watch the military parade and flypast in central London as part the nation’s VE Day 80th anniversary events.

Dorothea Barron, aged 100, said she was “dying to get involved” in the war effort, joining the Women’s Royal Naval Service after leaving school, serving at a base at HMS Hopetoun in Port Edgar, near ...

Recommendations from a newly launched commission into social care will be “doomed to failure” unless the true cost of inaction in the sector is set out, MPs have warned. The Health and Social Care ...

Scotland’s First Minister said he is ‘fearful of what lies ahead’ as he condemned the ‘alien values that Nigel Farage is peddling’.

Conservationists are battling to secure the future of the ‘jewel in the crown’ of British habitats as climate change looms.