A new £2 coin design will celebrate George Orwell, the author of well-known novels 1984 and Animal Farm. The Royal Mint has released the design to mark 75 years since the author’s death. The reverse ...

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An Australian man has described feeling “the shudders” as more than 100 venomous red-bellied black snakes were removed from a pile of mulch in his Sydney garden. David Stein called Reptile Relocation ...

A major railway line is closed after a car driven by a suspected drunk-driver crashed on to train tracks. Images from the scene show the vehicle came to a rest upside down and surrounded by debris on ...

The vote, carried today, Friday February 7 at the Union's conference in Glasgow, saw him see of Alasdair McNab for the top job. Mr Connon runs a commercial sheep flock and also assists on the family ...

Fans are convinced that an Emmerdale star has quietly quit the popular ITV soap opera after disappearing from our screens. Viewers of the programme have increasingly noticed the absence of Ella ...

FOLLOWING Storm Éowyn, the damage in the Borders, apart from a few trees, was not as bad as in some other areas of Scotland. The rainfall at Lochton near Coldstream for January amounted to 48.7mm, or ...

Welsh sheepdog breeder and prolific trials winner, Kevin Evans, Brecon, led Skipton Auction Mart’s first timed online working sheepdog sale of 2025, selling the top priced entry at £8000. His sale ...

Despite rising production and shifting demand challenges, the major milk processors are holding prices steady going into the second month of 2025. First Milk is maintaining its member milk price at 45 ...

Now the first week of United Auctions’ Stirling Bull Sales has finished, the countdown is on for the other four breeds to enter the ring. Charolais, Luing, Salers and Simmental breeders will head to ...

The Scottish Tenant Farmers Association (STFA) are holding a series of meetings in February. STFA managing director, Doug Bell said “With the Land Reform Bill continuing its passage through the ...

This fact check has been compiled by Full Fact, the UK’s largest fact checking charity working to find, expose and counter the harms of bad information. In recent weeks we’ve seen various different ...