A 21-year-old man remains in custody after he was arrested in the early hours of Tuesday as part of an investigation into suspected arson attacks on properties and a car linked to Sir Keir Starmer.

A man accused of murdering his wife and dumping her body in a shallow grave at their home said he is “not a monster”, and that “once the lies started” about what happened, he could not stop, a court ...

Elena Whitham told MSPs her mother, Irene McLeod, made the decision in ‘secret’ in a bid to ‘hasten her inevitable death’.