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Former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has been arrested in connection with the ongoing investigation into the funding and finances of the SNP. Police confirmed a 52-year-old woman was taken into custody as a suspect and is being questioned by detectives. It follows the arrest and subsequent release of her husband, ex-SNP chief executive Peter Murrell, […]

Glasgow City Council is having to hire vehicles because some of its own fleet does not meet new rules on emissions. More than a third of its vehicles are not allowed inside the city’s Low Emission Zone (LEZ) introduced last week. A spokeswoman for Glasgow City Council said: “New LEZ compliant vehicles are expected to

Time is running out if the police and the government are to restore public trust in policing, the Chief Inspector of Constabulary has warned. In his annual report, Andy Cooke said police forces were experiencing “one of their biggest crises in living memory”. Cooke, the former chief constable of Merseyside Police – who interestingly has

Black Tunisian women say they are experiencing more instances of racism after the country’s president criticised sub-Saharan migrants. This comes after Tunisian President Kais Saied ordered “urgent measures” against sub-Saharan migrants, accusing them of a “criminal plot” to change the country’s demographics and cultural identity. He went on to say that immigration came from “a

The recruitment of nurses by western countries from poorer nations is “out of control”, according to the head of one of the world’s biggest nursing groups. Howard Catton from the International Council of Nurses (ICN) is concerned about the scale of the numbers leaving countries like Ghana. “My sense is that the situation currently is

A man has been charged over a football shirt which appeared to refer to the 97 fans who died due to the 1989 Hillsborough disaster. James White, 33, from Warwickshire, was charged with displaying threatening or abusive writing likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress. During Saturday’s match, a photo of the back of a

A jail term for a far-left extremist who took part in violent attacks on people she deemed to be far-right has caused an uproar on both the left and right of German politics. Lina E was given a sentence of five years and three months – but was also told she is now free pending

The Met Police’s plan to stop attending emergency mental health incidents is “potentially alarming”, a former inspector of constabulary has said. From September, officers will only attend mental health 999 calls with an “immediate threat to life”. Zoe Billingham, previously Her Majesty’s Inspector of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue, said the proposals could create a

Health Secretary Steve Barclay has admitted not all of the 40 new hospitals promised for England by 2030 will be brand new. Mr Barclay also acknowledged that some of the hospitals originally promised would now be completed after 2030, but a total of 40 projects would still be finished by that date. When pressed over

New Derby mayor Alan Graves has hit back after fuming Labour councillors walked out in protest as he was about to officially enter his new role. In what was an unexpected move, the Reform Derby councillor won by a single vote against Labour councillor Balbir Sandhu to don the mayoral robes for the coming twelve months.