Richard Longthorpe raised £22,000 for St Paul’s, Goole Amateur Boxing Club and Parkinson’s UK last January by doing 1,000 press-ups a day.

A driver in a pick-up truck who was “hell-bent on carnage” sped through a crowd of pedestrians in New Orleans’ bustling French Quarter in the early hours of New Year’s Day, killing 10 people and ...

Human-induced climate change is causing shifts in the world’s largest ocean current and westerly wind systems also seen during periods of ice age and warmer intervals in Earth’s history, researchers ...

Members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community collected hundreds of bags of litter in towns and cities across the UK as part of an annual New Year clean-up. More than 1,700 people took part in the event ...

STAFF at the Ayrshire Maternity Unit at University Hospital Crosshouse welcomed their first baby of 2025. After a busy night with four new-borns arriving between 11:30pm and midnight, it was little ...

A WEATHER warning for ice is now in place across Ayrshire on New Year's Day. The Met Office yellow warning covers the whole region and runs from 4pm on Wednesday, January 1 until 10am on Thursday, ...

Here are just a handful of some of our favourite submissions from 2024. George Shields captured this wonderful 'waterfall' shot at the River Ayr. An eery New Cumnock sunrise captured by Neil Wilks at ...

Some residents have been asked to evacuate where flood warnings have been issued, Manchester City Council said.

A loud bang, a burst of red, white and blue confetti and lots of cheering marked the start of the rain-soaked and delayed London New Year’s Day Parade. Hundreds of umbrellas went up at the time the ...