Sub-zero temperatures sweep Scotland and Northern and central England, but London and the south east look set to escape the snow.

The Olympic Torch is scheduled to begin its epic journey across almost every conceivable inch of the country, a little predictably, at Land’s End.

BP will begin a highly controversial campaign of drilling for oil in the deep waters off the Shetland coast within days, after a green light from the Government.

Green campaigners have reacted angrily to the Chancellor's backing for fossil fuels, which included £3 billion in support for new drilling in the North Sea.

Seventeen skippers behind one of Scotland's biggest fishing scams have been fined a total of £720,000.

Snow and high winds are set to batter parts of the UK over the weekend, forecasters warn.

Chris Leadbeater looks at some ice-cool trips to mark the centenary of the explorer's epic journey

Unseasonably mild weather dashed hopes of a White Christmas yesterday.

The single day of hurricane-force winds that battered Scotland could cost the country's economy around £100 million, business experts have warned.

An airport at the edge of the Atlantic, where planes touch down on the beach, has been named the world's most spectacular place to land.

Parts of Britain are braced for more snow, sleet and hail today as the winter cold snap continues to bite.

BP's "public consultation" over its plan for a controversial deepwater oil well off the coast of Shetland, closed this month, has been reopened by Chris Huhne, for further comments.

We know all too well what crude oil can do to the incomparably rich avifauna of Shetland: in 1993 the tanker Braer ran aground there, spilled its cargo, and in the next few weeks more than 1,500 dead birds were picked up on Shetland beaches – a figure thought to be but a fraction of the true death toll.

Internal report warns of ecological disaster if new well bursts