Assets linked to Baroness Michelle Mone and her husband Doug Barrowman have been frozen, as a National Crime Agency investigation into PPE firm Medpro continues. According to the Financial Times,
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Humza Yousaf offered an “unreserved” apology for the Scottish Government’s “frankly poor” handling of requests from the UK Covid-19 Inquiry for WhatsApp messages to be handed over. The Scottish First
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The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has come under fire for failing to produce timely auditable accounts for the second consecutive year, with concerns raised over a lack of information
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Some £9.9 billion of the £13.6 billion spent on personal protective equipment (PPE) has been written off because it was unusable or its value has crashed since the pandemic. The
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Nicola Sturgeon called Boris Johnson “a f****** clown” in pandemic WhatsApp messages, an inquiry has heard. The UK Covid-19 Inquiry was shown messages between the former Scottish first minister and
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The Scottish Government did not accept Covid-19 was “here to stay”, an inquiry has heard. Giving evidence to the UK Covid-19 Inquiry on Wednesday, Professor Mark Woolhouse, professor of infectious
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The Government’s childcare reforms could widen the attainment gap between poorer children and their well-off peers before they even start school, a social mobility charity has warned. The quality of
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Council leaders have called for reform of local government finance and an end to “short-term” measures after Michael Gove confirmed authorities will receive £500 million in emergency funding for social
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Many traumatised child refugees are being put at risk of abuse after being wrongly assessed as adults on their arrival in the UK, campaigners have said. Flaws in the Home
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Scotland’s national clinical director did not retain any informal, one-to-one messages relating to management of the pandemic but denies deleting WhatsApps daily in a “pre-bed ritual”, an inquiry has heard.
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