The Scottish Government has been asked to intervene after a North Lanarkshire Council held a secret meeting to award a £ 1.4 billion contract to a firm that has a board member as a councillor.The council held a meeting in private where officials voted on plans to award the Mears group a housing, repair and […]
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The employment tribunal hearing for Scotland’s first-period dignity officer will start next March and could last ten weeks. Jason Grant’s appointment sparked worldwide controversy last year, with critics saying the position should have gone to a woman. However, Mr Grant’s role was created to ensure the legal right to free period products in public places.
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Defiant Graham Linehan went ahead with his comedy show outside the Scottish Parliament on Thursday night after it was cancelled twice by Edinburgh Fringe venues. The original venue, Leith Arches, had pulled out over the Father Ted creator’s views on transgender issues. Comedy Unleashed moved the sold-out gig to an outdoor stage at Holyrood when a second venue declined to host
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A law lecturer was forced out of her job at the Open University for refusing to implement “gender identity theory” into her classes. Dr Almut Gadow was forced out of her position last November for gross misconduct. Dr Gadow,43, says the institution accused her of “serious bullying and harassment” and of breaching their transgender staff
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Thousands of online grooming crimes have been recorded while waiting for updated online safety laws. Campaigners are urging tech companies and MPs to back the Online Safety Bill and are calling for no more hold-ups. The bill aims to crack down on illegal content and has faced repeated delays and amendments. Children’s charity the NPSCC
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Harben House Hotel in Newport Pagnell is due to receive 270 asylum seekers paid for by the home office. However, it has come to light that the hotel’s owner, Siddharth Mahajan, 42, from Ilford in east London, was convicted of offences linked to the operation of houses of multiple occupancy (HMOs). Milton Keynes Council leader
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MP Mhairi Black has slammed Westminster ‘full of a***holes’ in a crass rant. The SNP deputy leader in Westminster commented on-stage at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, blasting the Government and saying her time spent there made her “stomach turn.” Black announced last month that she would be stepping down at the next election after holding
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BMA Scotland GP chair Dr Andrew Buist warned the country is facing a “bleak situation” and called for “urgent action” from the nationalist government. He predicted Scotland could “become seriously under-doctored”, resulting in patients struggling “even more than they are right now to get appointments”. The medic insisted: “The Scottish Government must take this situation seriously and
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The Home Office has officially launched a new task force; the task force will be responsible for collecting evidence to build more robust cases against ‘crooked’ immigration lawyers. The GOV.UK website states, ‘ We are stepping up action to support regulatory action and prosecution of unscrupulous lawyers, with a new dedicated taskforce and tougher sentences.’
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Robin Harper has resigned his life membership of the Scottish Green party as he believes it has ‘lost the plot’. Mr Harper, who was the UK’s first Green parliamentarian, quit in a letter to co-leader Patrick Harvie. The 82-year-old served as a Lothians MSP between 1999 and 2011 and was co-convener of the party from
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