Michael Gove defended the funding of landmark levelling-up promises launched on Wednesday as he insisted the Government will “change the economic model of this country”. The Levelling Up Secretary said
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A violent ex-partner who fatally stabbed a mother and her young autistic son in front of a distressed baby before leading police on a 24-hour manhunt has been convicted of
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Manchester United footballer Mason Greenwood has been further arrested on suspicion of sexual assault and threats to kill and detectives have been given more time to question him. The 20-year-old
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There has been an increase in the number of Scots classed as homeless, with official figures showing a rise in both rough sleeping and the number of people in temporary
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“Shocking” racist, sexist and homophobic messages exchanged by police officers have been published by a watchdog that found the highly offensive language was dismissed as “banter”. Details of messages from
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Some £8.7 billion spent by the Government on personal protective equipment (PPE) during the pandemic has been written off, according to annual accounts. New documents from the Department for Health
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The Scottish Government is fighting poverty with “one arm tied behind our back”, according to two ministers. Public health minister, Maree Todd, said the Scottish Government is forced to counter
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A care sector boss has said the Government must apologise to care home workers who lost their jobs, following its announcement that it plans to scrap the mandatory vaccine requirement
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Harrowing evidence of child sexual exploitation by organised gangs offered only a glimpse of the ordeals suffered by young victims. Over the course of two months in 2020, the Independent
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There are “extensive failures” in the way child sexual exploitation by criminal gangs is tackled, with police and authorities potentially downplaying the scale of abuse over concerns about negative publicity,
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