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.

Hotel tycoon Surinder Arora has published a Heathrow expansion plan which rivals a proposal from the airport’s owners. The billionaire’s Arora Group said the “primary benefit” of the plan it submitted ...

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