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Disabled people encouraged to check entitlement to benefits

The Scottish Government is launching a new advertisement campaign to increase take-up of recently devolved disability benefits.

Royal horses in crowd training for coronation day, King’s head coach...

Matthew Power is in charge of keeping the monarch and the Queen Consort safe inside the carriages.

King’s coronation route is far shorter than his mother’s in 1953

The return journey will cover 1.3 miles compared to the late Queen’s five-mile expedition around central London which took two hours to complete.

Gold State Coach ‘creaks like an old galleon but runs better than it...

The King and Queen Consort will travel to the coronation in the modern Diamond Jubilee State Coach and return in the historic Gold State Coach.

Coronation Twitter emoji revealed as Charles’s 17th century golden c...

The emoji will accompany coronation hashtags in celebration of the weekend of festivities in May.

Camilla to hold ivory sceptre during coronation ceremony

The King and Queen Consort will be crowned on May 6 at Westminster Abbey.

Cheryl Korbel joins push for offenders to be made to attend sentenci...

It comes as Thomas Cashman refused to appear in the dock when he was sentenced on Monday.

Douglas Ross suggests Tories could vote Labour in Scotland to oust S...

But a Tory spokesman in Westminster insisted ‘tactical voting was “emphatically not the view of the Conservative Party’.

Father of British-Israeli sisters killed in West Bank ‘confident’ of...

Rina and Maia Dee were shot dead in an attack on their car near an Israeli settlement in the West Bank on Friday.

Ben Ferencz, last living prosecutor of Nazi war crimes, dies aged 10...

Mr Ferencz was one of the prosecutors during the Nuremberg trials.

Three rockets fired from Syria towards Israel, military says

The rocket launch comes just a day after Israeli warplanes struck alleged Palestinian militant targets in both Lebanon and the Gaza Strip.

UK hotter than Rome while Scotland sees highest temperature of the y...

The mercury rose to 17.3C in Kinlochewe in the Scottish Highlands as Brits basked in glorious sunshine over Easter weekend

Memphis Zoo bids farewell to panda ahead of return to China

Ya Ya was born on August 3 2000 in Beijing.

Israel beefs up security for Jerusalem religious ceremonies

A closure barring entrance to Israel for Palestinians from the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip is in place for the Passover.

Netanyahu names British-Israeli sisters killed in occupied West Bank

The two sisters were shot dead in an attack on their car near an Israeli settlement in the West Bank.

Pope Francis returns to public eye for Easter vigil Mass

The pontiff is recuperating from bronchitis.

Archbishop of Canterbury will warn of ‘divine justice’ in Easter ser...

Justin Welby will tell Canterbury Cathedral that “those who oppress and subjugate others will face divine justice”.

Police quietly monitor parades by republican groups ahead of Easter...

Small demonstrations in Newry and Lurgan passed without incident as police maintained a low-key presence.

Estonian leader’s party clinches new coalition government deal

Kaja Kallas’s Reform Party won the March 5 election with 31.2% of the vote.

Children on hospital ward left with ‘big smiles’ after Easter egg su...

Some members of FC United of Wrexham gave Easter eggs to children at Wrexham Maelor Hospital.