Thousands Of Jobs To Go As Councils Are Scrapped
Ministers face a string of legal challenges after announcing that 35 councils are to be scrapped in a move to streamline services and save £150 million a year.
Read MoreMinisters face a string of legal challenges after announcing that 35 councils are to be scrapped in a move to streamline services and save £150 million a year.
Read MoreEvery person who leaves or enters Britain will be electronically screened under new measures designed to expose terrorists hiding among the travelling public, Gordon Brown announced yesterday.
Read MoreMost A&E departments in England do not identify problem drinkers or offer them long-term help when they seek treatment, a study says.
Read MoreSix disabled people have been arrested in connection with what is believed to be the widespread abuse of a scheme to help wheelchair-users buy cars.
Read MoreThe killer of Polish student Angelika Kluk has had a heart attack in prison. Peter Tobin, 60, who was jailed for life in May for the rape and murder of Miss Kluk in September 2006, was taken ill in Peterhead Prison on Wednesday.
Read MoreA woman walking her dog was brutally raped by a gang of four men in the west end of Glasgow in the early hours of yesterday.
Read MoreOne of Scotland’s leading academics has been called in to decide the fate of threatened accident and emergency units. Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon yesterday appointed Dr Andrew Walker to head a panel on the future of departments at Monklands in Airdrie and Ayr Hospitals.
Read MoreA community worker in Northern Ireland has received glowing praise from the Prime Minister in a newly published book. Gordon Brown said Community Foundation director Avila Kilmurray had been a constant innovator and serial campaigner during work stretching back 30 years.
Read MoreSex offenders and violent criminals could be caged indefinitely under radical new Government plans. Northern Ireland minister Paul Goggins will publish draft proposals overhauling the law in the province to protect the public from the most dangerous criminals.
Read MoreThe Intensive Care Unit at Belfast City Hospital has been closed to new admissions after two patients were found to have a bacterial infection. They are now being treated in isolation. The hospital said the patients had a multi-resistant acinetobacter infection.
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