The owner of a tiny Scots island is refusing to sell it to a firebrand cleric with plans to turn it into an Islamic homeland.

The Mail on Sunday can reveal that Sheikh Yasser al-Habib, 45, and his followers are in advanced talks to buy the remote isle of Torsa, off the west coast of Scotland.

Nigel Farage likes to say that the world of politics is much the same as the City markets in which he cut his teeth as a young trader: in both, timing is everything.

Anthony Stevens, a Conservative councillor in Northamptonshire, was arrested last year after posting an image from a video of a Christian preacher having his bible wrested off him by police.

Plenty of women terminate accidental pregnancies and either go on to regret it or never give it a second thought. But this was no accident. The pregnancy I ended happened as a result of IVF.

David Threadgold, chairman of the Scottish Police Federation (SPF), says Police Scotland’s vow to investigate every report of hate crime has created a ‘simply unmanageable’ situation.

Ashfield District Council in Nottinghamshire is considering outlawing street harassment under an extension to its current three-year public spaces protection order (PSPO).

JK Rowling was told by Police Scotland yesterday no action would be taken against her after she made a string of comments about trans women online.