The UK Covid-19 Inquiry has begun hearings into the way £15 billion of taxpayers’ money was spent on personal protective equipment (PPE) during the pandemic, amid claims of fraud and
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The Home Office dealt with triple killer Khairi Saadallah with “woeful inadequacy” before the Reading terror attack, an inquest has heard. The director of the Home Office’s Foreign National Offenders
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A coroner is to examine the circumstances that led to a number of deaths in a care home at the height of the coronavirus pandemic. Some 11 deaths were reported
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The Scottish Secretary was “wrong” to delete all his WhatsApp messages during the Covid pandemic, the leader of the Conservatives in Scotland has said. Douglas Ross was speaking after Alister
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A report into “shocking abuse” at an NHS mental health unit where patients were filmed being mistreated has found poor leadership, bosses “disconnected” from reality and practices of suppressing “bad
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One of the Scottish Covid Bereaved group said “crocodile tears aren’t washing with me” as they reacted to Nicola Sturgeon giving evidence to the UK inquiry. During her evidence session
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John Swinney “manually” deleted messages between himself, Nicola Sturgeon and Humza Yousaf in a practice which could date back to 2007, the UK Covid-19 Inquiry has heard. The former Scottish
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The family of one of the students stabbed to death in Nottingham have condemned the “disgusting” lack of calls for a public inquiry into the triple killing. Valdo Calocane stabbed
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The UK Government did not use the Covid-19 pandemic to strengthen support for the union, Michael Gove has said, as he argued Scottish ministers diverged on policy to advance their
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Former health secretary Jeane Freeman has told the UK Covid Inquiry she will “regret for the rest of her life” care home deaths caused by Scottish Government decision-making. Ms Freeman
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