Britain's one-time youngest ever lottery winner has been found in the isolated bungalow where he lived alone.

Millions of people living in southern England and the Home Counties were told to prepare themselves for up to 40cm of snow last night as Britain remained in the grip of the longest prolonged spell of cold weather for 30 years.

2009 was not a great year for celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay.

Detours restaurant reviewer Peter Calder renews his acquaintance with the "chieftain of the pudding race" and other Scots delicacies.

Child sex abuse by women is more widespread than realised, say experts, who believe there could be 64,000 female offenders in Britain.

The Viking reputation as bloodthirsty conquerors has endured for more than a millennium but new research shows that some Norsemen approached the British islands with more than a little trepidation.

It has emerged that police officers in Strathclyde, Scotland visited the home of a three-year-old after receiving a complaint of damage to household property

Graham Reid goes in search of the most loved of all Scotland's writers.

Once notorious for slums, industrial grime and hard-drinking locals, the largest city in Scotland has staged a whopper of a comeback.

Jack Straw, has admitted that the fate of the convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi had formed part of Britain's negotiations with Libya over a multi-billion pound deal for oil exploration.

The Scottish Justice Secretary faced down a barrage of angry criticism from members of the Scottish Parliament yesterday amid mounting dismay over his decision to release the Lockerbie bomber.

The All Blacks will head off for another Grand Slam tour next year - their third in five years.

The great train robber has been granted a release on compassionate grounds.

Scottish psychologist finds unprotected sex may prevent depression.

Rising sea levels support Schwarzenegger's bold greenhouse gas reduction target.