Communion, the folk club night and label co-founded by Mumford and Sons keyboardist Ben Lovett and Kevin Jones is behind the debut releases of two of this year's Mercury Prize nominees – Michael Kiwanuka and Ben Howard.

Travellers rate UK holiday rental accommodation as some of the best in the world, it was revealed today.

Police divers are set to join the hunt for a man missing after a canoeing tragedy that claimed the lives of his two young sons and a five-year-old girl.

The family of a five-year-old girl who died following a canoeing accident which also claimed the lives of two young brothers have paid tribute to their “beautiful angel”.

The Highlands are alive, but how do you solve a problem like Merida?

Forces morale 'fragile' as Government reveals whole Infantry battalions will be scrapped

Environment Secretary Caroline Spelman will visit the North East of England today as home-owners, businesses and the insurance industry count the cost of a major clean-up operation after freak storms hit the country.

Tax offices were closed today and calls to telephone inquiry lines were met with a recorded announcement because of a strike by tens of thousands of Revenue and Customs (HMRC) workers.

Grotty no more

After being spoilt by the Indian summer of last October, and the brief arrival of unseasonal sunshine in February, it had begun to seem as if the real thing would never arrive this year following the wettest April in years. But now those comparisons of Britain to stereotypically hot places around the world where temperatures are, for once, marginally cooler than here – the Bahamas! Hawaii! Ibiza! – can finally be brought out in force.

'We always find something to giggle about. We're like schoolgirls, but with gallows humour'

US tycoon Donald Trump has told the Scottish Parliament that wind farms will destroy tourism.

There is nothing wrong with Glaswegian men having a good cry

Nine hillwalkers, including six teenagers, who became stranded after heavy snowfall have been rescued, police confirmed.