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Sheku Bayoh inquiry chairman facing conduct hearing over meetings with family

Sheku Bayoh inquiry chairman facing conduct hearing over meetings with family

Sheku Bayoh inquiry chairman facing conduct hearing over meetings with family

Solicitor Aamer Anwar, acting for the family, branded it an ‘attack’ and a ‘desperate attempt to undermine the inquiry’.

British and Indian ministers meet for ‘productive’ talks on trade deal

British and Indian ministers meet for ‘productive’ talks on trade deal

British and Indian ministers meet for ‘productive’ talks on trade deal

More than a dozen rounds of talks involving successive governments have taken place since 2022.

MP calls for every new maternity unit to have bereavement suite

MP calls for every new maternity unit to have bereavement suite

MP calls for every new maternity unit to have bereavement suite

Rosie Wrighting was proposing the Maternity Units (Requirement for Bereavement Suite) Bill in the House of Commons.

Government unveils plans to expand options for home heating grants

Government unveils plans to expand options for home heating grants

Government unveils plans to expand options for home heating grants

Air-to-air heat pumps and heat batteries could be made eligible under the boiler upgrade scheme.

More than 1,000 physician associates could enter NHS workforce each year

More than 1,000 physician associates could enter NHS workforce each year

More than 1,000 physician associates could enter NHS workforce each year

The medical regulator has approved 36 courses to teach physician associates and anaesthesia associates.

Only one in six children learning recorder after drop in popularity over decade

Only one in six children learning recorder after drop in popularity over decade

Only one in six children learning recorder after drop in popularity over decade

However, a report by the ABRSM, the exam board of the Royal Schools of Music, suggests the range of instruments now being taught is ‘widening’.

Minister rejects MPs’ calls for UK to push ahead with Palestinian recognition

Minister rejects MPs’ calls for UK to push ahead with Palestinian recognition

Minister rejects MPs’ calls for UK to push ahead with Palestinian recognition

French president Emmanuel Macron has suggested France could move towards formal recognition of a Palestinian state in the coming months.

Teenager admits attempted murder by pushing woman in front of train

Teenager admits attempted murder by pushing woman in front of train

Teenager admits attempted murder by pushing woman in front of train

Andrew Wason, 19, pleaded guilty to pushing the woman off a platform at Hyndland station in Glasgow on April 20 last year.

Stagecoach bus strikes suspended after legal threat

Stagecoach bus strikes suspended after legal threat

Stagecoach bus strikes suspended after legal threat

Unite threatened legal action against Stagecoach this week, after the bus company threatened to cancel drivers’ annual leave entitlement.

Woman contemplating eye removal has sight saved in time for wedding

Woman contemplating eye removal has sight saved in time for wedding

Woman contemplating eye removal has sight saved in time for wedding

A first-of-its-kind lab discovered Ellie Irwin had an eye infection.

Gardeners urged to stop thinking of wildflowers as weeds as no mow May kicks off

Gardeners urged to stop thinking of wildflowers as weeds as no mow May kicks off

Gardeners urged to stop thinking of wildflowers as weeds as no mow May kicks off

Conservation charity Plantlife calls flowers such as dandelions the ‘unsung heroes of the natural world’.

10th teenage boy admits to violent disorder in Southend last summer

10th teenage boy admits to violent disorder in Southend last summer

10th teenage boy admits to violent disorder in Southend last summer

All 10 defendants will be sentenced at the same court during the week commencing July 14.

Reeves unveils plans to regulate crypto after talks with US

Reeves unveils plans to regulate crypto after talks with US

Reeves unveils plans to regulate crypto after talks with US

The Chancellor announced plans to make crypto firms subject to regulation in the same way as traditional finance companies.

DUP leader: Kneecap’s ‘balaclava has slipped’

DUP leader: Kneecap’s ‘balaclava has slipped’

DUP leader: Kneecap’s ‘balaclava has slipped’

DUP MP Sammy Wilson also described the rap trio as the ‘musical wing of Sinn Fein’.

Truck driver told police wife ‘flew’ at him with chisel, murder trial told

Truck driver told police wife ‘flew’ at him with chisel, murder trial told

Truck driver told police wife ‘flew’ at him with chisel, murder trial told

Richard Satchwell, 57, is on trial accused of murdering his wife, Tina, whose body was found in a shallow grave in the house they shared.

Dundee University redundancies cut in half as part of new plan

Dundee University redundancies cut in half as part of new plan

Dundee University redundancies cut in half as part of new plan

But the principal of the institution warned there would need to be ‘significant additional public funding’.

Judge tells victims of fugitive paedophile: ‘Only one person to blame’

Judge tells victims of fugitive paedophile: ‘Only one person to blame’

Judge tells victims of fugitive paedophile: ‘Only one person to blame’

Richard Burrows, who spent 27 years on the run, was convicted of multiple child sex offences.

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