The Scottish cabinet is expected to discuss plans to legislate for same-sex marriage when it meets later.

The UK Border Agency has cut 1,000 more staff than intended and is having to hire extra people and increase overtime to meet its workload, a report says.

The chairman of the trade body for building societies says he feels let down by bosses of scandal-hit banks.

The Olympic flame will visit the Seven Sisters cliffs and Tonbridge Castle as it travels from Brighton and Hove to Hastings on day 60 of the torch relay.

Foreign direct investment into China fell in June as an economic slowdown dampened companies' appetite for expansion.

Online learning in university is gathering momentum - as a US consortium signs up Edinburgh University as its first UK partner.

Summer may be late, but it might be just around the corner after news of a slight shift of the jet stream.

A section of beach on the Isle of Wight once reserved for Queen Victoria is to open to the public for the first time.