Local leaders in England will be able to specify the types of homes needed in their areas and which sites to prioritise for construction.

Six people were arrested ahead of Aston Villa’s highly charged Europa League fixture with Maccabi Tel Aviv, which passed without serious incident. The league phase match at Villa Park, which the hosts ...

Aston Villa coasted to a 2-0 Europa League win over Maccabi Tel Aviv where all the attention was on what happened off the pitch.

The Eredivisie side were a pale impression of the one Louis van Gaal led to the title in 2009. Their manager Maarten Martens was a key member of that side, and he at least saw his team pull a goal ...

Rangers’ Europa League troubles continued with a 2-0 defeat by a superior Roma side at Ibrox. Head coach Danny Rohl’s tenure began with a 3-0 loss away to Brann last month and it was a similar story ...

Alan Carr has been crowned the first-ever winner of Celebrity Traitors UK. After 19 celebrities entered the castle at the start of the series, just five went into the final on Thursday (November 6): ...

Stevenage missed the chance to go top of Sky Bet League One as they lost 1-0 at lowly Reading with an early Charlie Savage goal condemning them to defeat. Boro needed a win to leapfrog leaders ...

Aberdeen manager Jimmy Thelin praised his players for learning lessons and showing “amazing” discipline in a goalless draw with AEK Larnaca. The Dons were back in southern Europe two weeks after ...

Among those the duke met was Brenda Reid, 101, who served at a women-run naval station in Nova Scotia during the Second World War and Harold Toth, 95, a Korean War veteran who enlisted with the ...

Glasgow band Kai Reesu have won the coveted Scottish Album of the Year (SAY) award at a prize ceremony in Dundee. Their debut album, titled Kompromat Vol. I, blends jazz and hip-hop, psychedelia and ...

Martin O’Neill admitted Celtic were handed a reality check after they were thumped 3-1 by FC Midtjylland. The Hoops’ hopes of prolonging their Europa League campaign into the knockout stages suffered ...

Lewis Capaldi, Kasabian and Richard Ashcroft have been revealed as the headliners for the TRNSMT music festival on Glasgow Green next year. The three-day outdoor festival will kick off on Friday June ...