The man at the centre of a Scottish town’s centuries-old “Burryman” tradition says the mystery behind the unusual costume he wears each year is what makes it special. Each year, Andrew Taylor dons a ...

A hoped-for summer boost to retail has failed to materialise for the second consecutive year as one in seven shops lie empty, latest figures have shown. Total UK footfall was down by 0.4% year on year ...

A baby boy was diagnosed with a one in a million condition after a doctor commented on the size of his head during an appointment for an unrelated issue.

A rare ‘stop-drive’ order has left 120,000 customers unable to drive their cars, and Which? warned that many had no alternative mode ...

Conor O’Rourke, who is now three, was part of a rare subgroup of patients which made his condition essentially untreatable.