ENGLAND’S long wait for a women’s 100m Commonwealth Games champion will go on after Amy Hunt was squeezed into silver by New Zealand’s Zoe Hobbs in the final at a sodden Scotstoun Stadium in ...

GREAT YARMOUTH bin and street cleaning workers will begin strike action next month over pay, Unite announced yesterday.The Norfolk seaside town faces a “summer of rubbish” as some 100 Great Yarmouth ...

ISABELLA BROWN held her nerve to win England’s second weightlifting medal of the Glasgow Commonwealth Games with silver in the women’s -77kg category today.Brown missed both her opening lifts of 77kg ...

TOKYO’S growing involvement in South China Sea affairs is driven more by Washington’s “Indo-Pacific” strategy than by Japan’s own security interests, according to leading experts.Ukeru Magosaki, ...

THE demand for Diane Abbott’s reinstatement in the Parliamentary Labour Party has been backed by more than 35,000 people.They have signed a petition urging Prime Minister Andy Burnham and new chief ...

JOE FAGAN has become the third contender to succeed Anas Sarwar as leader of Scottish Labour just two months after entering Holyrood.The South Scotland MSP was elected as a councillor for East ...

JAPAN: Soldiers and emergency workers combed through a badly damaged shopping mall and collapsed houses looking for trapped survivors today after a powerful earthquake that killed at least 18 people ...

CHARLEY HULL admits she must win a major to consider herself a rival to Nelly Korda.The world number seven has finished runner-up five times in golf’s biggest tournaments and is hoping to go one ...

ACTIVISTS dressed as firefighters while others poured a black liquid resembling oil over their heads during a protest outside Shell’s global headquarters today.They carried placards reading: “Shell ...

SCOTTISH Greens have called on Prime Minister Andy Burnham to listen to science and block drilling on the Rosebank oil and gas field.The party’s demands came ahead of a consultation on the grant of a ...

ZACK POLANSKI has refused to apologise to Reform chief Nigel Farage amid a confected row over a social media image shared by the Green Party leader.Mr Polanski said he had made an “inadvertent mistake ...

FIRE crews battled a mega-fire four times the size of Paris in south-west France while facing tinderbox temperatures set to climb above 40°C today.The heat wave and forecast winds could hamper ...