Cruise liner used to house refugees fleeing the horror of war in Ukraine called in amid 'crisis'... to house tourists and performers at the Edinburgh Fringe

The 25-year-old vessel was hired by the Scottish Government in 2022 to house more than 1,000 Ukrainian refugees and remained docked in Glasgow until last year.

I share name with music star, I almost didn’t get flight because staff thought passport was fake

TAYLOR Swift’s Scots namesake baffled airport staff as she headed on holiday — until she showed them our report on her superstar moniker.She told

Humza Yousaf writes to Alba Party's Ash Regan asking her to talks in last desperate bid to save his job as Scotland's First Minister

Humza Yousaf has written to the Scottish Parliament's sole Alba Party MSP asking her to talks in a desperate bid to save his political future.

Sex, psychoanalysis, intimate operations and a winning way with flashers - how eye-popping Marie Bonaparte put even her maverick nephew, Prince Philip, in the shade...

The Duke of Edinburgh was a larger-than-life character, but even he paled to next to his colourful aunt, Marie Bonaparte.

REBECCA ENGLISH: What the charming picture released of Their Majesties says about Charles and Camilla

When it comes to royal portraits, nothing should be taken for granted. So what does the new image of Their Majesties released to mark the anniversary of the Coronation next week tell us?

The royals who stepped up in Charles' hour of need: How Queen Camilla, William, Anne, Edward and Sophie all shouldered responsibility for public duties when King and then the Princess of Wales were diagnosed with cancer

In Charles' absence, Princess Anne has been the busiest royal. Since the start of the year she has carried out 167 engagements.

How DOES the pioneering skin cancer vaccine work? When will patients be able to get hold of it? And could it really be a cure for deadly melanoma? All your questions answered...

Brits could be just over a year away from receiving a 'game-changer' jab on the NHS to treat one of the deadliest forms of skin cancer.

Would you like (to pay) to be beside the seaside? Inside British resorts from Margate to St Ives and Devon considering European-style tourist taxes that could set a family of four back £140 a week...compared to £120 for Venice

The great British seaside may be known for ice-cream pinching seagulls and penny arcade machines, but holidaying in the UK may soon set Brits back by more than the cost of a lost cone.

Public school-educated parliamentary researcher, 29, is ordered not to contact MPs as he and ex teacher, 32, are granted conditional bail after being charged with spying for China

Christopher Cash, 29, from Whitechapel in east London (left) , and Christopher Berry, 32, from Witney in Oxfordshire (right), are both accused of an offence under the Official Secrets Act.

Public school-educated Parliamentary researcher, 29, and ex-teacher, 32, arrive at court charged with spying for China

Christopher Cash, 29, from Whitechapel in east London , and Christopher Berry, 32, from Witney in Oxfordshire, are both accused of an offence under the Official Secrets Act.

Public school-educated Parliamentary researcher, 29, arrives at court as he appears alongside ex-teacher, 32, charged with spying for China

Christopher Cash, 29, from Whitechapel in east London , and Christopher Berry, 32, from Witney in Oxfordshire, are both accused of an offence under the Official Secrets Act.

Public school-educated Parliamentary researcher and second man will appear in court today charged with spying for China

Christopher Cash, 29, from Whitechapel in east London , and Christopher Berry, 32, from Witney in Oxfordshire, are both accused of an offence under the Official Secrets Act.

The woman doing sign language at Humza Yousaf's press conference tapped her forehead. It may have meant 'this poor bloke's off his rocker', writes QUENTIN LETTS

QUENTIN LETTS: Humza Yousaf, Scotland's First Minister, is a collector's item. So wonderfully shifty! The lazy eyelids, the over-rehearsed concern, the self-glorification, the blazing insincerity.

'Game-changer' cancer jab offers hope of a cure: NHS launches trial of world's first personalised vaccine to destroy melanomas - and it uses same tech as pioneering Covid shots

The vaccine is custom-built for individuals using the specific genetic makeup of their tumour - telling the body to hunt down cancer cells and prevent the deadly disease from coming back.

Humza Yousaf on the brink of being OUSTED as Scotland's First Minister as SNP's former coalition partners the Greens say they will back no-confidence vote in his leadership just hours after he kicked them out of the government

The First Minister is facing a confidence vote in his leadership after he moved to end the Bute House Agreement amid a row with the junior party over environmental and trans policies.

SNP gives Greens the Bute: Under-pressure Humza Yousaf ends Scottish coalition agreement by turfing junior party's leaders out of government amid row over environment and trans rights policies

Mr Yousaf is believed to have sacked Green co-leaders Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater from junior ministerial roles after a week of furious infighting between and within both parties.

Duchess Sophie of Edinburgh channels the Fab Four as she poses up a storm on the Beatles' famed Abbey Road cover crossing

Sophie, 59, donned the scarlet gown for an Orbis Visionaries Reception at the historic musical venue where the Beatles used to record their music in London.

Lady Amelia Windsor wows in lace slip dress as she attends Earth Day dinner in London

Lady Amelia Windsor, the granddaughter of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, was effortlessly elegant in a strappy black slip dress for the event in Mayfair, London, on Monday.

Pictured: Second man, 32, charged alongside Tory Parliamentary researcher, 29 with spying for China under Official Secrets Act

The second man charged alongside a Tory Parliamentary researcher with spying for China has been pictured. Christopher Berry, 32, is accused of spying between 2021 and 2023.

Parliamentary researcher, 29, is charged with spying for China: GP's public school boy son is charged alongside man, 32, for offence under Official Secrets Act after probe by counter terror cops

Christopher Cash, 29 - a Tory parliamentary researcher and China specialist - has been charged for an offence under the Official Secrets Act.

Moment 'drunk' Celtic fan punches police officers in shocking brawl on easyJet flight from Edinburgh to Turkey 'after downing a bottle of vodka'

Footage shows the man trying to punch people in the row in front of him before moving towards the aisle. One passenger said the fight broke out after someone called the football fan a 'disgrace'.