The Forth Road Bridge is completely closed to traffic for at least 24 hours and possibly longer to allow repairs to structural faults.

Senior Conservative Party officials received a memo in August which warned that Mark Clarke, the activist at the centre of the Tory bullying scandal, was "sociopathic" and "dangerous".

Pub chain JD Wetherspoon says card information of 100 customers who purchased vouchers online was stolen from database.

Labour candidate Jim McMahon comfortably wins the Oldham West and Royton by-election with a majority of more than 10,000 and an increased vote share.

Greece has asked the EU for help managing and registering migrants, as thousands remain stranded on its border with Macedonia.

Cities around the world could use water from rivers and the sea to stay cool as the climate heats, city mayors have been told.

The UK is paying less for new cancer drugs than a number of other high-income countries, according to a report in The Lancet Oncology.

Sir Richard Branson is going to use one of his old Virgin Atlantic 747-400 jumbos to act as a platform to launch rockets into orbit.