A former SNP equalities officer has been jailed for six years for the sexual assault of six young adults. 24-year-old Cameron Downing was also convicted of assaulting two women. Amongst his crimes were blackmailing a man he had sex with, claiming he would tell the man’s friends and family that he had been raped. Downing […]
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So, the election has been and gone. We have a new prime minister and government and, apparently, the country has a new direction. You have undoubtedly heard many thoughts about how Farage and Reform took the votes away from the Tories, how the SNP got humiliated, and how unjust the first-past-the-post electoral system is, especially
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A retired 74-year-old Ghanaian man who has lived in the UK for 47 years must wait a decade before the Home Office will let him stay permanently. Nelson Shardey, from Wallasey in Wirral, had assumed he was officially seen as British for many years. He only discovered otherwise in 2019, and despite paying taxes all
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More than 1500 locals have signed a petition to reverse a decision to force a market trader to cease trading. Pick n Mix sweet stall holder Kevin Hilliard had traded at Saxmundham’s Wednesday market for over twenty years, but due to a rebranding by the local council. The town council said the market’s rebranding towards
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A Tory party donor has apologised for saying Diane Abbott makes him hate all black women! Frank Hester, who has donated over £10 million to the conservatives, has said his comments had nothing to do with her gender or race. A spokesperson for the prime minister said. “The comments allegedly made by Frank Hester were
A young musician has proclaimed, “Rule Britannia makes people feel uncomfortable and should not be sung on the last night of the proms.” Sheku Kanneh-Mason, who performed at the proms, told Radio 4 that he did not think the song should be included in Last Night of the Proms and that “so much wonderful music”
“This week our activists in the North East of Scotland have been out delivering over 500 leaflets for our #DundeeNeglect campaign. Dundee has the highest drug deaths in Europe and some of the most impoverished areas in the country and the SNP have completely neglected the city. Our first minister seems more concerned with diverting
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Defence Secretary Grant Shapps has said that 20,000 soldiers will be stationed across Europe as part of a NATO exercise known as Steadfast Defender 24. Mr Shapps has outlined a plan for the UK’s loss of the “peace dividend” that the West has enjoyed since the end of the Cold War. After the UK government
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It has been rumoured that former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn is mulling over a move to start a new political party in the next few weeks. The 74-year-old, if he did start a new party, could poach voters who are dissatisfied with the current direction of the Labour Party. There would certainly be space
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Humza Yousaf has defended his stance on not following the UK government ban on XL Bully dogs. The first minister believes that Scotland has strict enough laws on dogs that a ban would be unnecessary. New legislation known as the Control of Dogs (Scotland) Act came into force in Scotland in 2010. It sets out
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