4 hours ago Wild weather and giant hail forecast to welcome King Charles in Sydney

Bureau of Meteorology expects cold front to bring damaging weather and dangerous wind gusts across Australia’s east and south-east on FridayFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastSevere thunderstorms are forecast to strike Sydney on Friday about the same time King Charles’s flight touches down, as a cold front packing high winds and giant hail tracks east across the country.King Charles and Queen Camilla are scheduled to arrive just after 7pm, and they can expect wild weather in Australia. Continue reading...

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14 hours ago Businessman Sir Tom Hunter paid to return Alex Salmond’s body to Scotland

The entrepreneur said he ‘deserved the dignity and privacy of a private return to the home of his birth’.

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15 hours ago Private donor paying for Alex Salmond's body to repatriated revealed as Sir Tom Hunter

Mr Salmond’s body will be flown home to Scotland on Friday afternoon

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15 hours ago Private donor paying for Alex Salmond's body to be repatriated revealed as Sir Tom Hunter

Mr Salmond’s body will be flown home to Scotland on Friday afternoon

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16 hours ago Scots billionaire Sir Tom Hunter paid to repatriate Alex Salmond's body

The former first minister died suddenly on Saturday after suffering from a heart attack in North Macedonia.

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17 hours ago Labour backtracks on push for genocide ruling on China’s treatment of Uyghurs

Exclusive: Party drops plan for formal recognition laid out last year by David Lammy, who will visit Beijing on FridayUK politics live – latest updatesLabour has backtracked on plans to push for formal recognition of China’s treatment of the Uyghurs as genocide in the run-up to David Lammy’s trip to the country this weekend.The foreign secretary is expected to arrive in Beijing on Friday for high-level meetings before travelling to Shanghai on Saturday. Continue reading...

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17 hours ago Body of former first minister Salmond to be flown back to Scotland on Friday

Alex Salmond’s body will be returned from North Macedonia on a chartered plane paid for by an unnamed private individual.

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18 hours ago Alex Salmond's body to be flown home to Scotland on Friday as funeral planning continues

The former first minister will be flown to Aberdeen, near to the home he shared with wife Moria for 30 years.

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25 hours ago Scottish Government should have stepped in to pay to send Alex Salmond's body home

Record View says it’s legitimate to ask why Holyrood officials did not offer at the outset to pay for the repatriation of a former first minister.

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