MARION Reid has hit the jackpot, winning £1,000 in the weekly Ayrshire Hospice lottery. Marion, who previously secured a £10 prize twice since joining the lottery in 2018, landed her win in December.

FORMER Ayrshire MSP and health secretary Jeane Freeman has died at the age of 72. Freeman was MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley from 2016 to 2021 and served as health secretary between 2018 and ...

Ms Takaichi bet that her LDP party, together with its new partner, the Japan Innovation Party, would secure a majority in the 465-seat lower house, the more powerful of Japan’s two-chamber parliament.

The Ulster Museum’s entire costume and textile collection was destroyed following a firebomb attack at Malone House in 1976.

If the people of Scotland want to hold an independence referendum, “that is their choice”, Jeremy Corbyn has said. During a speech at the Your Party Scotland conference in Dundee, the co-leader said ...

Lord Peter Mandelson should hand back the payoff he received after being sacked as ambassador to the US, or give it to charity, a Cabinet minister has said.

Plans for a Northern Games could help rebalance the north-south divide and ensure a fairer national redistribution of major events, campaigners say.

AYRSHIRE'S newest minister is settling into his first charge at St Nicholas Church in Prestwick. Rev Andrew Johnstone, who has just been ordained, began his role earlier this year. St Nicholas is ...