Scotland kick off their Guinness Six Nations campaign at home to Italy on Saturday. Here, the PA news agency takes a look at five talking points ahead of the Murrayfield showdown.

Dan Skelton hailed John Hales as “a great man for our sport and all horse sports” after the leading owner died at the age of 85. Hales has seen several top-class National Hunt performers carry his ...

A body has been recovered from a river near where two missing sisters were last seen in Aberdeen. Henrietta and Eliza Huszti, 32, part of a set of triplets who moved to Scotland from Hungary, were ...

There were 4,612 people recorded as sleeping rough in the capital between October and December, up from 4,389 in the same period in 2023.

Here the PA news agency looks at five talking points heading into the match. Hot on the heels of an unsuccessful autumn, Steve Borthwick is confronted with a trio of fixtures that could imperil his ...

England suffered more torment at the Women’s Ashes as they dropped seven catches to allow a dominant Australia to assume total control of the day/night Test in Melbourne. The ignominy of a 16-0 clean ...

The policing minister said she was aware of the “cost pressure” on police the XL bully ban had caused and wants to make sure forces get the funding to enforce it. Police chiefs have warned that ...

It comes after the National Audit Office warned the Home Office had ‘historically underspent’ funding allocated to tackle the issue.

Another runner-up effort at Cheltenham in the autumn continued the Surrey Racing-owned gelding’s progress in the staying division and he now attempts to bounce back from a minor blip at Newbury over ...

One lucky ticket holder has not yet claimed the £83,474,081 jackpot prize from the EuroMillions draw on Friday January 24.

Discovering a love for arcades was not the most important part of Sadia Kabeya’s injury rehab. Hamstring and ankle injuries kept the flanker out of Loughborough Lightning’s Premiership Women’s Rugby ...

Police forces need to make decisions locally on how many officers to have, a minister has said after some warned of funding pressures. Policing minister Dame Diana Johnson said she was “not pretending ...