Scottish Daily Mail
WHY DID PM KEEP PUBLIC IN DARK FOR 3O HOURS AFTER CHAGOS STRIKE?
KEIR Starmer was last night accused of a cover-up after failing to tell the public about an Iranian missile attack on a British overseas territory. The Government finally admitted that missiles had been fired at Diego Garcia more than 30 hours after...
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IRANIAN ARRESTED AT SCOTS NUCLEAR SUB BASE
AN Iranian trying to enter Britain’s nuclear submarine base has been arrested just hours before the Islamic Republic accused the UK of ‘participation’ in the war. The 34-year-old approached the gate at HM Naval Base Clyde with a 31-year-old woman of...
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Anya wears Beckham in the Big Apple
THE Queen’s Gambit star Anya Taylor-Joy nailed her colours firmly to Team Posh as she stepped out in New York wearing a dress from Victoria Beckham’s eponymous line. In a chic show of support for Victoria and David Beckham amid their very public feud...
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IRAN WAGES ‘FULL SCALE ECONOMIC WAR’ ON THE WEST
IRAN last night threatened to cripple the global energy market in a ‘full-scale economic war’ by ramping up missile attacks on oil and gas plants. In a major escalation of the Middle East crisis, facilities in neighbouring Gulf countries were...
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MSPS STEP BACK FROM THE BRINK ON RIGHT TO DIE
PROPOSALS to legalise assisted dying in Scotland were last night rejected by MSPs in a crunch vote. A Bill that would allow terminally ill adults to ask for assistance to end their life was defeated after MSPs voted by 69 to 57 against it in the...
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How Oscars stars said goodbye to the little black dress
A ‘SUBDUED’ Timothee Chalamet made the rounds of the post Oscars parties on Sunday night, steering clear of the Governors Ball where all the winners were having their statuettes engraved. Perhaps it would have been too painful to watch everyone else...
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THOUSANDS HIT BY NEW COUNCIL TAX NIGHTMARE
THOUSANDS of families are facing ‘eye-watering’ council tax bills of more than £4,000 for the first time under the SNP. Despite John Swinney urging Scotland’s 32 local authorities to peg rises to inflation, the average increase next month will be...
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STARMER’S DERELICTION OF DUTY
KEIR Starmer was accused of a ‘dereliction of duty’ last night after No10 admitted he did not speak to Peter Mandelson before making him US ambassador. Downing Street said there was ‘no requirement’ for the PM to interview the disgraced peer before...
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HOLYROOD ROCKED BY NEW SEX SCANDAL
MORE than 80 cases of sexual harassment, bullying and harassment have been revealed in a survey of workers at the Scottish parliament. The cases are said to include ‘serious allegations of sexual misconduct, sexual harassment affecting women and men’...
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BLITZED BY A VAPE SHOP FIRE
JOHN Swinney has signalled a crackdown on vape shops after the devastating fire in Glasgow. A vape store was yesterday confirmed as the source of Sunday’s huge blaze as daylight revealed the true scale of the damage wrought by the flames. Visiting...
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INFERNO
A MAJOR fire last night sparked chaos for rail passengers and drivers after bringing the centre of Scotland’s biggest city to a standstill. The ferocious blaze broke out in a building near Glasgow Central Station, forcing its evacuation and...
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TERROR FEARS OVER ‘IRANIAN SPY CELL’ IN UK
AN ALLEGED Iranian spy ring was smashed by British police yesterday. Amid warnings that many more cells may be preparing ‘potentially violent operations’ in Britain, counter-terrorism officers arrested four men with Iranian and dual British-Iranian...
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DESPERATE AND DELUDED
KEIR Starmer was branded delusional last night after insisting he has a grip on the Middle East crisis. At an emergency press conference, the Prime Minister claimed he was delivering ‘calm, level-headed leadership’. But his relationship with Britain’s...
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LABOUR ENSNARED IN CHINA SPY PROBE
LABOUR was plunged into a fresh China spying crisis yesterday after a Scottish MP’s husband was arrested. Lobbyist David Taylor, married to Lanarkshire Labour MP Joani Reid, was held by Scotland Yard on suspicion of assisting a foreign intelligence...
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A prime minister who Trump mocks as ‘no Churchill’ and a Navy fleet stranded in port
DONALD Trump last night launched another withering attack on Keir Starmer, dismissing him as ‘no Churchill’. In a major blow to the Special Relationship, the US President said he was ‘not happy with the UK’ and branded it ‘very, very uncooperative’
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U.S. lambasts ‘hand-wringing, pearl-clutching’ Starmer as Kemi says he’s ‘scared’ of his own voters
THE Pentagon yesterday vented its fury at Keir Starmer for his ‘pearl-clutching’ over the US attacks on Iran. The Prime Minister was accused of undermining the Special Relationship by banning American bombers from using British bases to launch...
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UK draws up rescue plan for Britons trapped in Gulf states
OFFICIALS are planning to evacuate hundreds of thousands of Britons as fires raged across the Gulf last night. After the US air strikes on Tehran, and Iran’s suicidedrone revenge attacks on tourist hot-spots including Dubai, 94,000 British citizens...
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Police urged to probe ‘family voting fraud’ in sectarian by-election
POLICE were last night urged to investigate ‘clear evidence’ of voter fraud in the Manchester by-election. Amid warnings that Britain is ‘sleepwalking into sectarian politics’, plumber Hannah Spencer cruised to victory for the Greens in the previously...
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Soham killer close to death after being battered with metal pole
SOHAM murderer Ian Huntley was clinging to life last night after a vicious ambush by an inmate in a prison workshop. The monster, who killed ten-year-olds Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in 2002, is believed to have been bludgeoned around the head...
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GUILTY OF A BRAZEN AND BRUTAL EXECUTION
AN ex-gamekeeper has been found guilty of the brazen execution of a man against whom he harboured a festering grudge for years. David Campbell, 77, gunned down his former colleague Brian Low as he walked his dog Millie along a secluded farm track...
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‘SLEEKIT SWINNEY’ TOLD 0F MURRELL CHARGE LAST YEAR
SCOTLAND’S most senior law officer ‘tipped off’ John Swinney about the case against former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell nearly a year ago, ‘bombshell’ documents reveal. Detailed allegations against Nicola Sturgeon’s estranged husband only became...
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NOW MANDELSON FACES THE MUSIC
PETER Mandelson was in a police cell last night after being arrested at his London home. The disgraced former minister was led away by detectives over allegations that he leaked sensitive information to paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein during his...
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William says he’s ‘not in calm state’ amid Andrew arrest drama
PRINCE William last night admitted he was ‘not in a calm state’ as the extraordinary Andrew drama engulfs the Royal Family. Making his first public appearance since the sensational arrest of his uncle, William accompanied wife Kate to the Bafta awards...
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POLICE TELL ANDREW’S BODYGUARDS: REVEAL WHAT YOU KNOW
ANDREW Mountbatten-Windsor’s police protection officers have been ordered to tell detectives everything they know. Scotland Yard last night told staff closest to the disgraced former prince to ‘consider carefully anything they saw or heard’ while...
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DOWNFALL
A HAGGARD Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was driven away from a police station last night following his arrest that shocked the world. After being held for 11 hours on suspicion of misconduct in public office, the stunnedlooking former prince was released...
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SCOTS LAW CHIEF: I’M NOT CORRUPT
SCOTLAND’S top prosecutor was last night forced to deny being ‘corrupt’ after she tipped off John Swinney about criminal charges against Nicola Sturgeon’s estranged husband. Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain, KC, was summoned to Holyrood to explain why she...
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Pressure piles on Andrew as FOURTH police force probes Epstein claims
PRESSURE mounted on Andrew Mountbatten- Windsor last night as another police probe was launched into claims linked to Jeffrey Epstein’s activities in the UK. Essex Police became the fourth force in recent days to confirm that it was examining...
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A SURRENDER TO CRIMINALS
POLICE in Scotland have ‘written off’ more than 22,000 crimes including cases of shoplifting, theft and vandalism. Top brass ordered officers not to launch full inquiries into offences deemed to be ‘minor’, where there is no lead such as CCTV...
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SO WHAT ARE THE POLICE WAITING FOR?
POLICE were last night facing mounting calls to launch a full investigation into Andrew MountbattenWindsor’s role as the UK’S trade envoy. Senior political figures called for a criminal probe into fresh allegations that the disgraced royal abused his...
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MANDELSON’S ‘GHOST FLIGHTS’ ON OLIGARCH JET
PETER Mandelson took ‘ghost flights’ on a Russian oligarch’s private jet to a summit with Vladimir Putin when he was EU trade commissioner, the Daily Mail reveals today. The now-disgraced peer accepted luxury flights aboard a Gulfstream jet controlled...
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CLAIM FOR POTHOLE DAMAGE? TAKE A LIE DETECTOR!
A WOMAN whose car was damaged by a pot- hole was subjected to a ‘lie detector’ test after claiming compensation from her council. Carolyn Hornblow said the automated phone call asked her a series of questions using voice-analysing software. The...
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LABOUR WOMEN’S FURY OVER SECOND PAEDOPHILE CRISIS
KEIR Starmer was accused of packing his government with ‘paedophile apologists’ yesterday as he struggled to defend a second controversial appointment. The Prime Minister was skewered in the Commons over his decision to hand a peerage to his former...
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SARWAR’S NO 10 COUP BACKFIRES
ANAS Sarwar has been ‘left out on a limb’ after his bid to oust Sir Keir Starmer came off the rails and stoked further divisions in his party. The Scottish Labour leader failed to secure any significant support for a Downing Street coup, with...
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Police knock on door of Mandelson’s £12m London home — and remove boxes of evidence
SCOTLAND Yard swooped on Peter Mandelson’s two homes yesterday. Police probing allegations of misconduct in public office raided his £12million London house and rented farmhouse in Wiltshire. engulf the Government, detectives with body-worn cameras...
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RAYNER: I’M READY TO GO
ANGELA Rayner has told friends she is ‘ready’ to launch a leadership campaign – as Labour MPs warned Keir Starmer that his premiership is ‘hanging by a thread’. The former deputy prime minister, who has quietly amassed a £1million war chest, gave Sir...
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STARMER IN GRAVE PERIL AS RAYNER TWISTS KNIFE
KEIR Starmer’s premiership was in grave peril last night after Angela Rayner led a Labour revolt against his handling of the Peter Mandelson scandal. In a dramatic move, the former deputy prime minister forced Sir Keir into a climbdown over the...
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Evidence that damns Labour’s Dark Lord
SCOTLAND Yard began a full criminal investiga- tion into Peter Mandelson last night. The move followed more damning revelations about the ex-Labour grandee’s relationship with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. While he was a Cabinet minister, the former...
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Mandelson reported to police after Epstein files reveal he gave ‘market sensitive’ No 10 emails to paedophile financier friend LABOUR'S DARK LORD NOW FACES A CRIMINAL INQUIRY...
PETER Mandelson was last night facing a police probe after being accused of leaking ‘market sensitive’ information to Jeffrey Epstein while in government. Scotland Yard is reviewing revelations that the architect of New Labour passed on highly...
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ANDREW IN NEW EPSTEIN LEGAL THREAT
ANDREW Mountbatten-Windsor faces a new legal threat after a second woman alleged that Jeffrey Epstein flew her to Britain for sex. The unnamed woman says she was taken to Buckingham Palace for tea afterwards. Her US lawyer last night issued an...
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Andrew invited paedophile to Palace a month after his release
ANDREW Mountbatten-Windsor invited Jeffrey Epstein to dinner at Buckingham Palace days after his house arrest ended. The former prince promised ‘lots of privacy’ to the convicted paedophile shortly after he was granted his freedom
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SWINNEY ON THE RACK OVER NHS BUG DEATH BOMBSHELL
NHS chiefs came under ‘political’ pressure to open a £1billion superhospital despite fears for patient safety, it was claimed yesterday. In fiery exchanges at First Minister’s Questions, Anas Sarwar produced a bombshell document he said proved bosses...
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COUNTDOWN TO CONFLAGRATION
DONALD Trump last night issued a chilling threat to Iran: make a nuclear deal or face an overwhelming military onslaught. As the US President’s ‘beautiful armada’ of warships moved into position, the Tehran regime said any attack would be ‘an act of...
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SNP LEAVES PUBS IN THE LAST CHANCE SALOON
RAPID action is needed to save Scotland’s pubs from mass closures, SNP ministers have been warned after a relief package was unveiled south of the Border. Pub bosses issued a dire warning of huge job losses in communities across the country unless...
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BURNHAM REBELLION GROWING
PRESSURE on Keir Starmer intensified last night as the backlash to his decision to block Andy Burnham continued to grow. One Labour MP called for the Prime Minister to ‘consider his position’ while more than 50 put their names to a letter critical of...
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SWINNEY BLAMES NHS FOR BUG DEATH SCANDAL
JOHN Swinney has been accused of ‘evasions and excuses’ after blaming former NHS bosses for the water contamination scandal at a flagship hospital. The First Minister admitted there was a ‘cultural problem’ at NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and that it...
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NOW TRUMP DELAYS CHAGOS SURRENDER
SIR KEIR Starmer pulled his deal to surrender the Chagos Islands last night. Just days after Donald Trump blasted the UK for ‘an act of great stupidity’ in signing the strategically important archipelago away, Labour withdrew the legislation from a...
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BUG DEATH HOSPITAL IS STILL A THREAT TO PATIENTS
THE hospital at the centre of an infection scandal still poses a risk to patients, it was claimed last night. Families of those who caught bugs linked to ventilation and water at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital say they still ‘don’t believe...
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TRUMP: I’ve struck a deal for my big, beautiful piece of ice
DONALD Trump last night dropped his threat to invade Greenland following a furious bust-up with Britain and other Nato allies. Speaking after talks with Nato chief Mark Rutte, the US President said he had agreed ‘the framework of a future deal’...
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A HOLLOW APOLOGY OVER NHS SCANDAL
HEALTH chiefs at the centre of a child death scandal yesterday issued a ‘hollow’ apology after years of denials and ‘cover-ups’. NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde finally admitted last week that dirty water at Glasgow’s Queen Elizabeth University Hospital...
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STOP FIGHTING EACH OTHER AND END THE LABOUR NIGHTMARE
ROBERT Jenrick threw a hand grenade into the politics of the British Right yesterday as he defected to Reform just hours after being outed as a Tory turncoat. On a dramatic day at Westminster, the former Conservative leadership contender became the...
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ANOTHER SPITEFUL SNP RAID ON SCOTS STRIVERS
HARD-WORKING Scots have been hit by another SNP Budget hammer blow after ministers refused to ease the strain on their finances and introduced controversial new levies. Finance Secretary Shona Robison yesterday rejected widespread calls to cut income...
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Shot dead, Robina, 23, a victim of the mullahs’ death squads
A STUDENT protester was shot in the back of the head during the Iran regime’s brutal crackdown on dissent. Robina Aminian, 23, was killed at close range as she left college to join one of the dozens of demonstrations sweeping the country. As human...
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SLASH TAXES OR KILL OUR HIGH STREETS
SCOTLAND’S town centres face the threat of mass shop closures unless action is taken to cut their tax bills in next week’s Budget, SNP ministers have been warned. A huge list of leading retailers and trade bodies have backed a plea for a permanent...
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DEEP FREEZE TO GET WORSE
JOHN Swinney has been urged to call in the Army to help snowbound Scots after deep-freeze weather warnings were extended across Scotland for a sixth day. A plea for additional support was made to the First Minister as a ‘major incident’ was declared...
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GREENLAND RAID WILL FINISH NATO, TRUMP IS WARNED
DONALD Trump was last night warned that any attempt to seize Greenland would spell the end of Nato. The US President has hinted that the minerals-rich island could be next on his hit list following a dramatic raid on Venezuela at the weekend. In a...
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PM FACES REVOLT BY LABOUR’S MADURO APOLOGISTS
LABOUR was tearing itself apart last night as MPs demanded the Prime Minister condemn the US attack on Venezuela. Sir Keir Starmer has refused to describe the capture of president Nicolas Maduro as an illegal act in breach of international law. But...
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GIRL FROM UK SCHOOL MISSING IN SWISS FIRE
A SCHOOLGIRL educated in Britain is among dozens missing following the Swiss ski bar inferno that killed at least 47. Charlotte Niddam, 15, babysat for pocket money in Crans-Montana but has not been heard from since the fire in the early hours of New...
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CHAMPAGNE SPARKLERS BLAMED FOR INFERNO THAT COST 47 LIVES
A SPARKLER in a champagne bottle is believed to have caused a Swiss ski bar inferno that killed at least 47 revellers yesterday. Families face an agonising wait to find out whether loved ones died in the early hours at Le Constellation in...
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DIGITAL IDS FOR BABIES
NEWBORNS could be allocated digital IDs in a ‘sinister’ expansion of the controversial policy. Ministers have privately raised the prospect of issuing the new technology to children at birth, along with the ‘red book’ of health records given to new...
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‘EXTREMIST’ IS STILL WELCOME IN UK, SAYS STARMER
DOWNING Street faced a furious back- lash last night after saying a controversial Egyptian dissident was ‘welcome’ in Britain. No10 defended Keir Starmer’s handling of the case of Alaa Abd El-Fattah, amid calls for him to be stripped of his British...
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Kemi: I don’t want people who hate our country coming here
KEMI Badenoch today calls for the deporta- tion of an Egyptian dissident, declaring: ‘I do not want people who hate Britain coming to our country.’ Tory leader says Alaa Abd El-Fattah – whose arrival in the UK was celebrated by Keir Starmer – should...
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‘GHOST’ NUMBER PLATES SCANDAL
NUMBER plates invisible to road cameras are being sold by DVLA-registered suppliers, the Daily Mail has found. Up to one in 15 cars could have ‘ghost plates’ designed to evade detection by automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras. Britain’s...
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REEVES’£1bn BOXING DAY SALES SLUMP
LABOUR has been accused of sounding a £1billion death knell to the High Street, with shoppers expected to shun today’s Boxing Day sales. Struggling retailers will lose out on the much-needed revenue as consumer confidence collapses amid Rachel Reeves’...
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STARMER’S HUMILIATING U-TURN ON FARM TAX
KEIR Starmer yesterday watered down the family farm tax in yet another humiliating capitulation to his backbenchers. The threshold at which inheritance tax will apply to farmers will more than double from £1million to £2.5million, halving the number...
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Ex-councillor ‘drugged and raped wife with other men’
A FORMER Tory councillor is due in court today charged with drugging and raping his ex-wife for 13 years. Business consultant Philip Young, a father-of-three, will appear before magistrates alongside five other men, all accused of carrying out sex...
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THE ONLINE CHILD SEX PREDATORS OUR POLICE CAN’T CATCH
MORE than 90 per cent of ‘sickening’ sextortion scams targeting Scots children go unsolved, police figures show. The schemes see victims – mainly young men – enticed into sending explicit photos or videos to someone who has befriended them online by...
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NHS bosses wanted to destroy my life over trans row
NURSE Sandie Peggie has revealed for the first time the threats, vilification, isolation and abuse she has faced battling state-sanctioned harassment at the hands of Scotland’s NHS. In an exclusive interview with the Scottish Daily Mail, the
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SNP ROCKED AFTER MSP’S OFFICE WAS BUGGED BY OWN STAFF
A NATIONALIST MSP was bugged by a member of her own staff at her office in the Scottish parliament, it was claimed yesterday. The former worker is alleged to have placed listening devices in the office of the unnamed politician but remains an office...
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FREE BBC IF YOU LIVE ON BENEFITS ST
MIDDLE-CLASS families face paying more to watch the BBC to help fund free licences for benefit claimants in plans unveiled yesterday. Favourites such as Strictly Come Dancing and The Traitors could be placed behind a paywall and advertising introduced...
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SCOTTISH JEWS ‘LIVING IN FEAR’ OF HATE ATTACKS
SCOTLAND’S Jewish community is ‘living in fear’ after the anti-Semitic terror attack in Australia which left at least 15 dead and dozens wounded. The shooting at Bondi Beach on Sunday was the bloodiest in the country in three decades. Among the dead...
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