The SNP Finance Secretary, Shona Robison, confirmed that the Scottish Government was going to slash £30m from the mental health budget In the coming year at a time when Scotland is facing an unprecedented mental health crisis, especially among our young people. The SNP are looking at making cuts of up to £680 million from […]
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A mum whose daughter was beaten up at school has said that social media has helped fuel violence in schools. Vicky Donald stated that in the aftermath of her daughter Kaylynn’s attack, the youngster got so fed up with seeing it on social media she stopped using her phone. Mrs Donald went on to say
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It almost feels like flogging a dead horse when writing about the migrant crisis. Such is the extent that we’ve covered the topic. But such a problem warrants continual attention, especially when we get headlines like the above. Surprisingly, it’s the BBC who have broken this story, who are usually less than candid on the
Almost 300 migrants crossed the English Channel in one day. Read More »
Streaming giant accused of placing ‘Afrocentric’ slant on history by giving the role of young Canaanite leader to a veteran black actor Tunisians have accused Netflix of “stealing” their history by casting Denzel Washington as General Hannibal in an upcoming film about the military leader who almost toppled Rome. They say, Hannibal, who famously marched elephants
Row breaks out over Netflix’s casting of the historical figure Hannibal. Read More »
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) published the Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa) rankings for 2022, which showed Scotland’s performance in maths, reading and science has declined since 2018. Scotland’s average reading score was 493 – higher than the OECD average but a fall of 11 points from the 2018 score of 504.
A new OECD Education report shows SNP continuing to fail Scotland’s children. Read More »
We have more reports of solar farms encroaching on greenbelt land in the East Midlands. This time, an energy firm wants to create two new solar farms spanning 328 acres between two Derbyshire villages. The sites earmarked for the farms are north of Denby and north of Smalley and sit 500m apart. The Denby scheme
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The Scottish government has lost its case against the UK government over its gender recognition bill. The court rejected the SNP’s claim that Westminster had no right to block reforms that would make it easier to change sex legally. In December last year, MSPs voted to pass the controversial Gender Recognition (Reform) Bill by 86 votes to
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Or are they? It has been widely reported in recent weeks that the entire board of one of Britain’s wealthiest charities are to be sacked in an anti-racism diversity cull after branding itself “white and privileged.” The Tudor Trust, which has assets of around £288million and gives about £20 million a year to good causes,
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A dangerous sex offender has been jailed after sending explicit messages and arranging to meet a person he believed to be a 14-year-old girl. Naveed Sultan, 38, had been sending the girl sexually explicit messages, unaware that the person he was texting was an adult posing as a teenager. After arranging a meeting place, the
Nottinghamshire sex offender jailed. Read More »
Earlier this month, we reported on proposals to build two major solar farms in Nottinghamshire: a 76-hectare solar farm between Caunton and Kelham and the four-mile-wide Great North Road Solar Park, west of Newark. Over the past couple of weeks, there have been several developments which we can happily report on. More parish councils are
