MSPs backed the general principles of the Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill by 70 votes to 56 with one abstention.

The layoffs are expected to hit across all parts of the business, including the career networking site LinkedIn and the video game platform Xbox.

Migrants have arrived in the UK after crossing the English Channel as more than 12,000 arrivals have made the journey so far this year. Pictures show a woman smiling on board a bus leaving from Dover, ...

Mr Adams is suing the BBC over what he has deemed to be a “grievous smear” made by a confidential source in a Spotlight documentary that alleged he had sanctioned the killing of a former Sinn Fein ...

Reform UK’s majority on Durham County Council has increased after welcoming a former Independent councillor into the party.

A Hartlepool pervert was out of prison for just four days before he was locked up again when he deleted a social media app and downloading ...

Elena Whitham told MSPs her mother, Irene McLeod, made the decision in ‘secret’ in a bid to ‘hasten her inevitable death’.

Residents living in and around Birtley have been advised to keep windows and doors closed due to an ongoing fire at an industrial unit on O'Brien Business Park. Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service ...

A witness who watched an alleged murder victim collapse in her Middlesbrough garden after being stabbed has denied trying to protect the victim ...

Researchers said the discovery could save ‘vast numbers of lives’ by enabling pre-emptive treatment of the condition.

A teenager from the North East is believed to be missing in Thailand, according to police in the UK. Bella Culley, 18, from Billingham, could be missing in the Southeast Asian country, says Cleveland ...

A Labour MP is being investigated by Parliament’s expenses watchdog over his spending. Tahir Ali, 53, faces a probe relating to “office costs, travel and accommodation,” the Independent Parliament ...