Planning for a peacekeeping force in Ukraine has entered the ‘operational phase’, the Prime Minister announced on Saturday.

All signs of its banking legacy are to be removed from a historic building in Peebles High Street as it is returned to its “former glory”.

A woman is in a life-threatening condition in hospital after an assailant poured a liquid over her on a tram in eastern Germany and set her alight. Police said no-one else was injured in the incident ...

The explosion occurred in a metal scrap storage space on the ground floor of a four-storey building in Latakia.