Senior local Conservatives are urging the prime minister to delay any Parliamentary decision on gay marriage until after the next election.

Protests break out in Spanish cities after Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy vowed not to resign over "false claims" that he received secret payments.

Scotland's Alasdair Strokosch will see a surgeon to assess the extent of the facial injury he sustained against England.

The family of Sasha Marsden, the 16-year-old girl who was stabbed to death in a Blackpool alleyway, say her death has left a gap in their lives.

Some welfare-to-work advisers are inappropriately telling the unemployed to become self-employed, a BBC investigation has found.

A physics prize for school students is to be launched in honour of world-renowned Scottish scientist Prof Peter Higgs.

David Cameron will hold key talks with the Afghan and Pakistani presidents to discuss regional co-operation ahead of Nato's Afghan withdrawal in 2014.

Former Tesco boss Sir Terry Leahy tells the BBC that the rise of supermarkets and closure of small shops is "part of progress".