QC had clashed with ex-deputy leader Kirsty Blackman over party’s policies on transgender rights Joanna Cherry, one of Nicola Sturgeon’s fiercest internal critics, has been sacked from the Scottish National party’s frontbench at Westminster after a public feud with its former deputy leader last week. Cherry, an advocate and queen’s […]
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Decision came after council withdrew 12 staff at Larne following reports of ‘menacing behaviour’ Brexit checks on animal and food products arriving into Belfast and Larne ports have been suspended amid fears over the safety of staff, Northern Ireland’s agriculture ministry has said. The decision came after Mid and East […]
Boy from Cornwall whose offending began at 13 and who founded UK branch of FKD will be sentenced next week The teenage leader of a neo-Nazi group has been convicted over offending that began at the age of 13, making him the youngest person in the UK known to have […]
Exclusive: Chris Hopson says public should expect longer waiting times to continue after second Covid peak Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage The NHS in England will take “months” to return to normal service after the Covid crisis is finally over, because its workforce is “exhausted and […]
Report says children repeating a year of school should be considered as part of radical catch-up efforts Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Today’s children face losing £350bn in lifetime earnings unless the UK’s governments invest in radical catch-up efforts when the pandemic is over, according to […]
Veteran campaigner and teenager join environmental activists to protest against rail project Veteran environmental activist Dan Hooper, known as Swampy, who is one of nine protesters in a tunnel in central London to raise the alarm about the environmental destruction they believe the high speed rail project HS2 will cause, […]
Country’s powerful military have previously threatened to ‘take action’ over alleged fraud in a November election Aung San Suu Kyi and other senior figures from Myanmar’s ruling party figures have been detained by the military in early morning raids, in what observers fear signals the first phase of a coup. […]
Lawyers David Schoen and Bruce L Castor will head up new legal team after Butch Bowers clashed with Trump over strategy, according to reports Donald Trump has named new lawyers to lead the defense at his impeachment trial in the Senate next week on the charge that he unleashed a […]
Demonstrators, including gilet jaunes activists, also protested against Covid restrictions Tens of thousands of protesters turned out in dozens of French cities on Saturday to oppose a security bill they say will restrict the filming and publicising of images of police brutality. Demonstrators also protested against the restrictions imposed to […]
Liz Truss to seek to join 11-nation trans-Pacific partnership, whose nearest member is 3,000 miles away The British government is to formally apply to join a mammoth free-trade pact that includes Australia, Canada, Japan and New Zealand now that it has left the EU. Liz Truss, the international trade secretary, […]