Kids leave diapers behind nearly a year later than they did in the 1950s. With 300,000 disposable diapers tossed every minute, a new study maps three ways out.

Students at Edinburgh, Dundee and Nottingham face a term without any teaching as sector struggles with rising financial uncertainty

Scandals about franchised provision have undermined the sector, and universities need to ensure failings are not repeated, vice-chancellors say

First-year students are around seven times more likely to develop meningococcal disease than peers who do not attend university.

External auditors PwC are reviewing the university at the request of the Scottish Funding Council.

This engaging conversation with Dean Strang, one of the most respected voices in criminal justice and legal reform, will be held on Monday 12 October 2026 at 18.30 in the Thomas Davis Lecture Theatre,...

We are continuing to appeal for information four weeks on from the discovery of the body of a woman in Stanley Park.

Forensic scientists are using DNA from dogs to help the police solve crimes.

Following her wrongful conviction, Jennifer Gaskin's two other children were taken from her and put up for adoption — she met her now-adult daughter for the first time Monday.

Douglas Stewart Carter, 71, was released on bail after new DNA evidence excluded him from the scene of a 1985 murder, though he still awaits a new trial.

The Mercury prize winner hasn’t been able to go home since falling ill last summer. In his only interview, he opens up about the ‘poignancy’ of finally releasing the new album his stroke shelved

Freedom of information request finds six-month trial cost £320,000, used almost 100 police hours and led to just one – incorrect – alert A six-month trial of live facial recognition (LFR) technology in London’s railway stations that cost more than £320,000 and almost 100 hours of police officers’ time ended in one false match against a watchlist of suspects and no arrests. More than half a million faces were scanned between February and July this year in some of the capital’s busiest transport hubs during the British Transport Police (BTP) trial of the surveillance technology, which aimed to help catch offenders and people breaching court orders. Continue reading...

Scandals about franchised provision have undermined the sector, and universities need to ensure failings are not repeated, vice-chancellors say