Culture can help to “make sense of this increasingly dangerous, angry and uncertain world”, First Minister John Swinney will say in a speech on Thursday highlighting Scotland’s creative industries.

The Metropolitan Police is also planning to expand its public order crime team amid a rise in protest-related offences in the past two years.

Radio 2 has lost nearly half a million listeners since the launch of its new weekday schedule earlier this year, which included Scott Mills replacing Zoe Ball as host of the flagship breakfast show, ...

Wildlife charity the Born Free Foundation is urging the public not to visit attractions that keep great apes in captivity.