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Schools across West Lothian will get an extra day's holiday on May 8 to celebrate the coronation of King Charles III, and the council confirmed scheduled SQA exams on that day will now be moved.

The United States, China and Russia argued during a United Nations Security Council meeting on Monday over who was to blame for spurring North Korea's dozens of ballistic missile launches and development of a nuclear weapons program.

Angela Kilmartin wrote on Facebook: "I don't want pride sex flags along my High Street. I don't even want heterosexual flags along my High Street." She was suspended by Witham Constituency Conservative Association following the comments

"If anyone asks me for something, no matter where they are from, I will bring it to the chamber"

Generative AI tools such as ChatGPT could pose a significant risk to blockchain engineers due to the automation of roles, according to new a study. Blockchain engineering roles were given a 97.1% risk score by researchers while 'web and digital interface' designers were given a 100% exposure score alongside accountants,…

The review has been announced the day before Night & Day's noise abatement court hearing

The Central Highlands Regional Council has expressed its sympathies for the family of one of its staff members who died in a workplace incident in the Arcadia Valley on Monday.

Auckland Council has consented yet another helipad on Waiheke Island. That’s more than 60 on an island less than 20km long. Kim Whitaker of Quiet Sky Waiheke asks how has council got it so wrong?

There's a fight on to make the woodland, which goes by various names, Manchester's next park

Views ranged from ‘thrilled’ to ‘disappointed’ in this polarised area

Council says that "on balance, it is considered that there are exceptional circumstances that decisively outweigh the loss of the open space"