Scottish Daily Mail
SCRAP THE SHAMBOLIC FOOD PRICE CAP NOW!
JOHN Swinney was last night under growing pressure to scrap his controversial food price cap ‘gimmick’. The First Minister has left supermarkets in the dark over key details of the scheme and a leading retail chief has hit out after he failed to even...
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IT’S DRILL, MR SWINNEY, DRILL AFTER SNP U-TURN
JOHN Swinney is under pressure to confirm a North Sea U-turn after his party conference backed domestic oil and gas over foreign imports. SNP delegates yesterday moved to formally scrap the previous ‘presumption against’ new drilling introduced by...
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My brave friend Meghan is back — and how! It was so dull without her...
WHEN I saw the pictures of the Duchess of Sussex having lunch with her hairdresser in London, I have to confess I had only one thought: thank heavens Meghan is back. After six decidedly dull years without her on our shores, the sight of the...
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The ‘predator’ in sunglasses
JUST before 9.30am yesterday, Russell Brand was to be found standing in the reception area of Southwark Crown Court. The comedian, actor, podcaster, guru, presenter, preacher, yogi, holy roller, author, DJ, columnist, conspiracy theorist – and a man...
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4 out of 5 new jobs went to foreigners in the past decade
FOUR in five jobs created over the past decade have been taken by migrants. Of the 3.7million new roles recorded under the PAYE system since 2014, just 734,000 were taken by UK nationals, a think-tank has found. EU citizens accounted for 408,000...
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BURNHAM IN RETREAT OVER RUSSIA BREXIT ‘LIES’
THE Prime Minister was in retreat last night over his ‘lies’ about Russian interference in the Brexit referendum. In an embarrassing U-turn Andy Burnham admitted he has no evidence that the Kremlin meddled in the 2016 vote, a claim he made just 24...
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MINISTER TO HIRE £11K PERSONAL ARTIST PAID FOR BY YOU!
A ROOKIE SNP minister is advertising for an artist-in-residence to create works about her political opinions. Public Finance Minister Hannah Mary Goodlad is spending £11,000 of taxpayers’ cash on a painter, sculptor or musician for her Shetland...
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WHY WAS MANIAC FREED TO KILL STACEY?
A VIOLENT thug stabbed his ex-partner to death after being spared jail for an earlier assault on her in the latest indictment of the SNP’s ‘soft-touch’ justice system. Lee Inglis, 39, murdered mother-of-three Stacey Hogg, 35, while under an electronic...
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Backlash over SNP’s soft touch on benefit fraudsters
MORE than 23,000 allegations of bene- fit fraud have been made to Scotland’s social security agency in three years but only 42 people have been reported to prosecutors. Concerns were raised yesterday that those who cheat the system are getting away...
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KEMI’S FAMILY HOME PLEDGE
KEMI Badenoch electrified the Conservative Party yesterday with a pledge to scrap inheritance tax on the family home. Signalling a return to the party’s traditional focus on lower taxes and home ownership, the Tory leader vowed to protect family homes...
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Kemi’s vow over Holyrood powers
KEMI Badenoch will order a review of devolution which will consider withdrawing powers from Holyrood if she wins the next general election. The Conservative leader is planning to hit back at SNP failings by unveiling a commitment to look again at the...
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Novelist Jeffrey Archer dead at 86
BESTSELLING novelist Jeffrey Archer yesterday died ‘suddenly and peacefully’ at home, aged 86. His publisher, Harper Collins, announced he had passed away ‘between writing sessions’ – the day before the release of what he had planned as his final...
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NOW TORIES DECLARE WAR ON THE BENEFITS SCAMMERS
A NEW law to fix the SNP’s ‘broken’ benefits system and finally bring down ‘out of control’ spending is to be put before MSPs. Under the crackdown proposed by the Scottish Tories, benefit fraudsters will have overpayments taken directly out of their...
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A SURRENDER TO CRIMINALS
MORE criminals are to be let off with ‘soft-touch’ warnings and fines in a bid to ease prison overcrowding, the Mail can reveal. Prosecutors have been told to take into account the dire situation in jails in their decision-making and to consider...
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BURNHAM BOTTLES IT!
ANDY Burnham was last night accused of ‘bottling’ plans for an early election after polls showed he would lose Labour’s majority. The Prime Minister yesterday moved to kill off speculation about a snap poll to prevent it overshadowing Labour’s annual...
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SWINNEY RAISES WHITE FLAG IN WAR ON DRUGS
JOHN Swinney has ‘raised a white flag in the drugs war’ after claiming that decriminalisation is part of the answer to soaring deaths. The First Minister yesterday said legalising the possession of drugs for personal use is one of the measures which...
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DEADLY TOLL OF SNP DRUG POLICY
SCOTLAND’S drug deaths crisis escalated even further last year with the number of people killed skyrocketing to more than three a day. The number of fatalities soared by 11 per cent to 1,133 in 2025, despite SNP ministers declaring the crisis a public...
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SWINNEY’S ENDLESS ‘HISSY FIT’ OVER BID TO END UK
JOHN Swinney has been accused of having a ‘never-ending hissy fit’ over the 2014 No vote after forcing another referendum rerun debate. The First Minister came under fire yesterday for leading a debate on Scotland’s ‘right to decide its own...
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HOW COULD IT HAPPEN AGAIN?
BRITAIN’S air traffic control chief was clinging to his job last night after the Prime Minister refused to back him over a second technical meltdown in two weeks. Thousands of passengers were left stranded as hundreds of flights were grounded due to a...
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A&E CRISIS: NOW CHAOS SPREADS TO REST OF NHS
THOUSANDS of Scots are waiting in pain for surgery because the A&E crisis is spilling over into the rest of the NHS, a damning new study has shown. Emergency departments continue to be swamped with patients, with the SNP government failing to meet its...
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Explosive new extract from memoir the whole world’s talking about by Earl Spencer
ADAY or two before the funeral I was driven by a friend from Althorp to the Chapel Royal, a small, historic place of worship that stands across the road from St James’s Palace in London. This was where Diana’s coffin was placed in the days between its...
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Queen offered to restore Diana’s HRH... after she died
THE late Queen dramatically offered to restore Princess Diana’s royal title on the day of her funeral, a bombshell book claims. Earl Spencer describes in his explosive memoir – being exclusively serialised by the Daily Mail – how Queen Elizabeth...
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‘Rest assured, we will forget her soon enough’
A FURIOUS Prince Charles told Earl Spen- cer days after Princess Diana’s death, ‘rest assured, we’ll forget her soon enough’, according to a devastating memoir. In allegations that prompted an extraordinary response from Buckingham Palace, Charles...
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EARL SPENCER’S BOMBSHELL NEW BOOK IS STOLEN
COPIES of Earl Spencer’s sensational book about Princess Diana have been stolen from a lorry – just before its exclusive serialisation in the Daily Mail. The memoir – Swan Song: Diana, My Sister – includes revelations about Diana’s deeply unhappy...
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Harry and Meghan pull children out of their new school after just two days
PRINCE Harry and Meghan have pulled their children from their new British school after just two days. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex removed Prince Archie, seven, and Princess Lilibet, five, from their prep school for security reasons. The children...
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Did Putin drone target Boris and top security officials?
TRAINS carrying Boris Johnson and foreign dignitaries were the intended targets of a Russian drone attack in Ukraine yesterday, experts fear. The former Prime Minister was on a charter train from Kyiv when it received a drone alert as it approached...
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BURNHAM BOWS TO THE GREEN MENACE
ANDY Burnham was last night accused of ‘run- ning scared’ of the Green Party after delaying new North Sea drilling. The Prime Minister has postponed approving drilling the Jackdaw gas field until after the Holborn by-election, where Labour faces...
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BACKLASH OVER ‘NAIVE’ BURNHAM’S INDY REF BLUNDER
ANDY Burnham has been urged to shut the door to more constitutional chaos by ruling out another independence referendum during his time in Number 10 following his ‘reckless and naive’ comments. The Prime Minister yesterday faced a continuing backlash...
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NOW MPS TO PROBE MURRELL SCANDAL FALLOUT
AN inquiry into the fallout from the Peter Murrell scandal has been launched by Westminster after Holyrood refused to act. The Scottish Affairs Select Committee will probe key aspects of the scandal, which saw the ex-SNP chief executive jailed for...
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GENERATION OF PUPILS BETRAYED BY THE SNP
SCOTLAND’S schools have slumped to a record low performance in maths and reading, with pupils in some subjects more than a year behind those in England. Damning international analysis has revealed that Scotland’s once-proud education system now trails...
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KING PUTS HARRY AND MEGHAN IN THEIR PLACE
THE King last night made absolutely clear that Harry and Meghan will not be taking up royal duties, despite their shock return to the UK. In an unprecedented letter to senior royal representatives, government and military officials, Charles appeared...
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CLUELESS!
JOHN Swinney has been accused of being ‘out of his depth’ after repeatedly failing to answer simple questions about his public sector reforms. The First Minister was asked seven times in a live TV interview to explain the impact on jobs or finances of...
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ARGENTINA CAN ‘SMELL BURNHAM’S WEAKNESS’
ANDY Burnham was last night accused of being ‘too weak’ to stand up to Argentina over its latest threat to ‘recover’ the Falklands. The Prime Minister failed to respond after Buenos Aires escalated tensions to their highest level since 1982 by...
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SEX GANG VICTIMS FAILED BY THE SNP
THE true scale of grooming gangs in Scotland is unknown because of a failure to gather data, watchdogs have found. Inspectors warned gaps in intelligence-sharing mean authorities cannot accurately gauge the extent of group-based child sexual...
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SWINNEY’S BLUEPRINT UNRAVELS UNDER THE SPOTLIGHT
JOHN Swinney’s public sector reforms started ‘unravelling’ yesterday as compulsory redundancies were ruled out. He said there was a ‘need for public sector employment to fall’ but he would not ‘put particular numbers’ on it and did not identify job...
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MEDDLING SWINNEY’S FIVE-YEAR PLAN ‘JUST GIMMICKS’
JOHN Swinney has been accused of unveiling ‘empty promises’ and ‘gimmicks’ after he pledged public sector reforms, bus fare caps and a food price cap. The First Minister used his first Programme for Government (PfG) since the Holyrood election to...
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SNP ‘CULL OF THE HEALTH BOARDS’
MOST of Scotland’s health boards are to be axed as part of ‘radical’ plans to streamline the public sector and save money. John Swinney is expected to announce that the majority of the 14 regional boards will disappear when he sets out his Programme...
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NOW SCRAP THE FOOD PRICE CAP MADNESS
JOHN Swinney is under mounting pressure to scrap his food price cap plan after industry leaders warned it will increase costs for consumers. Organisations representing more than 300,000 staff in the UK’s food and drink sector joined together to issue...
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SWINNEY’S INDY REF SLAPDOWN
JOHN Swinney’s latest plan for a second independence referendum has been slapped down by the UK Government which insisted the issue is ‘off the table’. The Scottish Government yesterday published draft legislation to hold a second divisive vote at...
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FACES OF BRITONS MISSING IN NEPAL
BRITISH families were last night desperately trying to contact loved ones missing in Nepal’s deadly ‘tsunami from the sky’. As rescuers battled to reach villages wiped out by Wednesday’s 600ft surging wall of mud, rock and ice, dozens of Britons...
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OVER 30 BRITONS MISSING IN NEPAL FLASH FLOODING
A DESPERATE hunt was on last night for 33 Britons, including a schoolgirl, missing after an apocalyptic mudslide in Nepal. More than 400 tourists were among thousands caught in the monster flash flood that swept away whole villages. A 13-year-old...
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BURNHAM WARNED OF IMPENDING RUSSIAN UK ‘ATTACK’
ANDY Burnham has been warned that Britain faces Russian retaliation over its support for Ukraine. Security experts have told the Prime Minister to be prepared for a ‘direct response’ from Vladimir Putin. The Kremlin is set to target the UK, sources...
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SEX ABUSE SHAME OF SNOOKER STAR DOTT
FORMER world snooker champion Graeme Dott was last night behind bars after being convicted of sexually abusing two children. The 49-year-old preyed on a girl and boy then tried to buy their silence with gifts or money. Dott, who was described as a...
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LABOUR’S NET ZERO THREAT TO 100K NORTH SEA JOBS
MORE than 100,000 jobs are set to disappear in the North Sea oil and gas sector over the next 25 years, according to Labour’s own figures. The loss will represent a fall of 80 per cent between 2024 – when the party won the election – and 2050. Labour...
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Harry, Elton & Co will have to pay millions to Mail
PRINCE Harry and his fellow claimants face a bill of up to £34.5million after the High Court ruled their ‘inadequate’ Daily Mail hacking case was ‘unreasonable to a high degree’. The Duke of Sussex, Doreen Lawrence, Sir Elton John and others have...
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SUSSEXES’ SECURITY COULD COST TAXPAYERS £5M A YEAR
PRINCE Harry’s shock return to the UK could cost taxpayers up to £5million a year, security experts claimed last night. It is not known if his security will be financed privately or by the taxpayer, but the Sussexes’ decision – six years after fleeing...
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Ministers forced to tell asylum seekers: Don’t rape women
ASYLUM seekers have been warned in an official government guidebook not to rape women. The disturbing Home Office document setting out the ‘rules and expectations’ of living in Britain comes in the wake of a series of horrific rapes and sex...
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SALMONELLA IN IMPORTED EGGS SPARKS OUTBREAK ACROSS UK
ONE person is dead and hundreds have fallen ill in a major salmonella outbreak being blamed on imported eggs. Issuing a national alert, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) suggested those affected had become sick after eating in cafes and...
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So who was White House hoaxer who duped PM?
ANDY Burnham was left red-faced yesterday after he was fooled by an imposter posing as Donald Trump’s chief of staff. An international hunt is under way for the hoaxer who targeted the Prime Minister as he took office last month. Mr Burnham thought he...
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Paedophile fireman used loophole to keep changing his identity
MINISTERS were under pressure last night to close a legal loophole that allows paedophiles and perverts to change their identity. The Daily Mail can today reveal that a convicted sex offender adopted as many as 20 aliases to hide his...
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Dani Dyer’s back with the Strictly gang after last year’s dramatic exit
LUCY Letby’s ‘boyfriend’ died after being sacked for exchanging messages with the convicted serial killer about a baby she tried to murder, the Daily Mail can reveal. The 53-year-old consultant doctor was found collapsed in his car the day after he...
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INFERNO
Devastation: Fires destroyed houses in the West Midlands yesterday after a blaze at a golf course spread to residential properties
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The day the earth stood still to watch the eclipse ... even if the clouds did get in the way!
AN AWESOME once-ina-generation solar eclipse saw stargazing mania grip the nation last night, with millions marvelling at the most glorious celestial display in decades. The uncanny sensation – as day briefly turned into a strange twilight – caused...
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NOW 198 LANGUAGES SPOKEN IN SCOTTISH SCHOOLS
NEARLY one in ten pupils in Scotland do not speak English as their main language with almost 200 different tongues spoken in classrooms. There were fewer than 10,000 pupils in this category in 2006 but the figure has risen to a record high of nearly...
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Day small boats crisis became a BIG boats crisis
LABOUR’S attempts to tackle the Channel crisis were branded a ‘complete laughing stock’ last night after a record 230 migrants arrived on one dinghy. The huge number – more than the capacity of a Boeing 737 jet – crossed from France yesterday,...
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SNP FACE NEW PROBE THREAT OVER MURRELL
THE scandal surrounding jailed former SNP chief Peter Murrell is set to be investigated by peers in the House of Lords, the Mail can reveal.
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TUBE MONSTER BAILED TO RAPE AND MURDER
A CONVICTED sex offender was free to kill two women and rape another despite warnings he was a danger to women. And incredibly, Simon Levy, 40, committed the second murder while on bail suspected of carrying out the first. Kemi Badenoch last night...
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SCOTS STUDENTS ‘CROWDED OUT’ OF UNIVERSITIES
SCOTS pupils who failed to get the exam grades they wanted are being shut out of university places in favour of fee-paying students from the rest of the UK and abroad. At many of Scotland’s top universities, hardly any courses are available through...
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FURY OVER SNP PLAN TO LET SEX ATTACKERS WALK FREE
VICTIMS have issued a plea to John Swinney to scrap plans to allow sex offenders and domestic abusers out of jail early. Campaigners urged the First Minister to deliver on his pledge to tackle violence against women by ensuring those guilty of sexual...
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SNP AND A SHAMEFUL BETRAYAL OF SCOTS CHILDREN
JOHN Swinney has been urged to apologise to pupils after failing to deliver on a promise to close the school attainment gap by this year. Scotland’ s exam results yesterday revealed there remains a huge gulf between the performance of the poorest and...
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ATHENS SUITCASE MURDER SUSPECT
AN AFGHAN boxer who arrived in Greece on a small boat has been arrested over the murder of a Scottish missionary. Sharif Ahmadzai, 26, is suspected of killing Elisabeth-Jane Ross, 38, before putting her body in a suitcase and dumping it in a derelict...
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BURNHAM MUST SCRAP ‘DISASTROUS’ PRO-UNION STRIKE LAWS
The swingeing changes will make it easier for unions to ballot for strikes, which could leave the country in a state of paralysis. Keir Starmer’s government passed the Employment Rights Act last December but some of its most damaging elements will...
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Ministers MUST stop the Spanish border invaders reaching UK
MINISTERS were under pressure last night to stop thousands of Africans who stormed a Spanish territory from reaching the UK. Spanish troops struggled to restore order yesterday after 60,000 migrants surged into Ceuta – a Spanish city on Morocco’s coast...
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BURNHAM ADMITS OIL DRILLING CAN EASE COST OF LIVING
ANDY Burnham was urged last night to ‘get Britain drilling’ after he admitted that North Sea oil revenues could ease the cost of living. The Prime Minister hinted at a shift in Labour’s ideological ban on new drilling, saying that at a time of tight...
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SCANDAL OF SNP’S £22M TAX BLUNDER
SNP ministers failed to consult their own tax experts before hiking the top rate so high it may have cost the public purse £22million, it was claimed yesterday. Dan Neidle, a member of the government’s Tax Advisory Group, suggested stupidity,...
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£36M SNP CLINICS SEE JUST 12 PATIENTS EACH DAY
JOHN Swinney’s £36million GP walk-in clinics have been ‘exposed as a flop’ after treating an average of just 12 patients each per day. Doctors said the flagship election plan was driven by ‘politics over practicality’, Deputy Scottish Political...
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BURNHAM’S £18 BILLION ‘DEATH TAX’ NIGHTMARE
ANDY Burnham was last night warned against reviving his ‘nightmare’ plan for a ‘death tax’. The Prime Minister has long favoured a 10 per cent levy on all inheritances and yesterday said he wants cross-party agreement on resolving the care...
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STREETING: I WILL QUIT IF DEFENCE PLAN FALLS SHORT
WES Streeting vowed yesterday to follow his predecessor and quit as Defence Secretary if Labour does not increase military spending. He said he would leave the job he has held for just days ‘as a matter of principle’. John Healey resigned from the...
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Hundreds told to leave homes as wildfire rages
Smoke billowing from the inferno, which has been raging in the Cairngorms for more than a week, drifted as far as 60 miles away as it continued to tear through heathland. As the devastating blaze approached Nethy Bridge, home to around 600 people,...
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LOOK WHO’S DROPPED IN!
TWELVE summers ago 40,000 of us sat in a stadium bathed in evening sunshine and watched a confident, reinvented Glasgow bellow its welcome to the world. Though the benchmark for success at that Commonwealth Games opening ceremony was the London...
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SARWAR PLUNGES SCOTTISH LABOUR INTO CIVIL WAR
SCOTTISH Labour is embroiled in a ‘civil war’ after the revelation that Anas Sarwar is to quit as leader to take up a job in Andy Burnham’s government. The party is facing the prospect of another divisive leadership contest as the Left desperately...
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