SOCIAL media platforms should comply with a compulsory code of ethics overseen by an independent regulator to tackle harmful or illegal content on their sites, a Commons committee has demanded.

SHAMIMA Begum was a child when she was groomed online, lured to Syria and married off to a jihadist fighter. She has since witnessed scenes that would leave the most hardened middle-aged adults in a state of trauma and has watched two children die from malnutrition.

SOMETIMES you have to disagree with your friends. ​I think the Catalan national parties have taken a huge risk by voting down the budget of the minority Socialist government of Pedro Sanchez in the Spanish parliament, so precipitating a general election on April 28 that could be won by the right.

In may respects, Brexit and all the turmoil and chaos that has brought Britain to this point has brought us full circle, right back to the revolutionary potential of the late 20s and 30s. The political left has disengaged from the politics of the street and the centre has completely come apart. The only real political strength in England today is the right and the racist far-right. Given this, the...

"Andrew and I were discussing the good, nay great, news, that Dr John Rae has won the RICS Pride in the Profession Mappers Award"

A total of 27 different organisations across Scotland will benefit to the tune of £462,000 in this 2nd round of funding.

This famous catch phrase from the 1930 film 'Another Fine Mess' pops into my mind on many an occasion and none more so than the daily lies we are subjected to by our elected politicians.

A consultation has been launched into inheritance in relation to intestacy - this is where a person dies without making a will.

Further progress made in key areas.