Convicted sex offenders who should have been closely monitored in bail hostels have instead been housed in budget hotel chains on their release from prison, inspectors have found. A shock
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The use of pre-recorded evidence in criminal trials in Scotland could be increased after MSPs on Holyrood’s Justice Committee approved initial proposals. The committee has been considering the Vulnerable Witnesses
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Health experts have warned Scottish hospitals are at risk of an outbreak of a new potentially deadly superbug unless attitudes towards screening change. Rates of antibiotic-resistant bacteria carbapenemase producing enterobacteriaceae
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Ofsted has been accused of scrutinising young Muslim girls who wear the hijab because they want to “look like their mum”. Labour MP Shabana Mahmood grilled Amanda Spielman on the
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A common gum disease bug plays a “central role” in the development of Alzheimer’s, scientists claim. The new evidence that infectious bacteria drive Alzheimer’s progression could potentially transform current thinking
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The Church of England’s annual safeguarding budget has risen from around £50,000 to £7 million, the Archbishop of Canterbury has said. The Most Rev Justin Welby added that the church
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A child migrant has told how she was shipped off to Australia and told she had no family – despite her parents and five siblings being alive. Yvonne Radzevicius was
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CCTV footage has been released in the search for a missing pensioner with dementia in Renfrewshire. Allan Burns from Kilbarchan was last seen on Friday at around 3.15pm on a
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A nurse who was looking after an incapacitated woman at a long-term healthcare facility in the US has been arrested on suspicion of raping her. It comes weeks after the
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Thousands of people on benefits are being “unlawfully discriminated against” under a controversial Government welfare scheme, the High Court has heard. In a test case over Universal Credit (UC), three
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