Innovation

Members of council-run leisure centres – including some referred by GPs – fear they could lose access to fitness classes because of pay cuts for instructors. According to trainers, a plan by East Riding of Yorkshire Council to stop giving …

Politicians have been reacting to Gerry Adams' libel victory over the BBC. The former Sinn Féin leader has won €100,000 (£84,000) in damages over a BBC story about the murder of a British agent. A court found Mr Adams was …

FLS archaeologist Matt Ritchie said: "This visualisation allows us to imagine what this Clyde Cairn – a type of tomb characteristic of south-west Scotland – would have looked like when it was first built. "The architecture suggests its use as …

Pupils in Edinburgh were cut off from revision resources ahead of key exam dates after an attempted cyber attack on the council's education department. Staff spotted a suspicious invitation to a meeting earlier on Friday and realised it was "spear-phishing" …

Police have objected to a supermarket's bid to sell alcohol 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Morrisons in Narborough Road, Leicester, currently has a licence to sell alcohol daily, between 07:00 and 22:00, but has asked Leicester City …

One of Harvey Weinstein's accusers has broken down in tears and left the courtroom as she testified in the former Hollywood mogul's sex crimes retrial. Miriam Haley was being cross-examined by Weinstein's lawyer, Jennifer Bonjean, about her allegation that the …

Plans for a new £100m railway station in Liverpool have been backed by councillors. Liverpool City Council hopes Liverpool Baltic station will "stimulate further development" in the city's Baltic Triangle district. Work on improving roads in the area is expected …

The cafe at a country park will be refurbished this summer after Rotherham Council approved the scheme and selected a contractor. The scheme for Thrybergh Country Park has been funded by the previous government's Levelling Up programme and is part …

A new lynx enclosure will be "a major step forward" in a Kent wildlife charity's ambitions to see the species returned to the British countryside, a spokesperson has said. Wildwood Trust has begun construction on a new enclosure at its …

Plans to convert a former private members club into 11 apartments have been put forward. The application to develop Dearne Burlington Club, in Wath-upon-Dearne, has been submitted to Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council. Domestic Trade Services wants to create 11 one-bedroom …