14 h. ago Sheku Bayoh public inquiry plunged into doubt amid police claims of bias

Key hearing scheduled for June into chair

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14 h. ago Sheku Bayoh public inquiry plunged into doubt amid police union claims of bias

Key hearing scheduled for June into chair

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5 d. ago ‘If Jesus and Buddha had our work schedule, they’d have fallen out too’: boyband Five on bullying, Britney and their blockbuster return

After being fast-tracked to stardom, the bad boys of Y2K pop butted heads and burned out. They explain how they faced their demons for an arena-sized reunion – and why Simon Cowell was ‘a proper winker’In September 1998, amid a rocketing pop career that would end up with every one of their 11 singles reaching the UK Top 10, British boyband Five went missing. They were due to visit the US, where the lascivious When the Lights Go Out had got huge, but Five – Ritchie Neville (curtains), Scott Robinson (spiky hair), Abz Love (hats), Sean Conlon (baby-faced), and Jason “J” Brown (eyebrow ring) – had other ideas. “We decided we wanted a couple of days off,” says Scott, now without spikes and sporting a thick salt-and-pepper beard. “So we booked our own flights back to the UK.”Rather than visit family like everyone else, J returned to the band’s shared house in Surrey. “There were fans camping outside, literally in tents on the little lawn,” he says, shaking his shaved head, now minus the ...

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5 d. ago Human rights expert named chair of Emma Caldwell public inquiry

Emma's mother Margaret hopes the public inquiry will act as a legacy and of hope for all the victims of sexual violence and misogyny

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6 d. ago Anas Sarwar uses John Swinney's far right summit to blame extremism rise on SNP 'failures'

Anas Sarwar broke the consensus of co-operation at John Swinney’s summit to counter the far right to point the finger at the SNP for “government failure”.

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1 week ago Edinburgh Rugby reaction: Sean Everitt's pros and cons, 'basic errors' and Jack Brown impact

Sharks strike at death to inflict bitter loss for Edinburgh

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1 week ago Josh Shapiro says he still hasn’t heard from Trump following arson attack on residence

The governor also said that ‘there were clearly security failures’ surrounding the arson because the suspect was easily able to enter the residence

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2 w. ago The SNP Government has created a bureaucratic monster shielding Ministers from failure

In his Daily Record column, Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar blasts the quango state created by the SNP Government.

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2 w. ago Benn ‘taking steps’ to ensure ICRIR can investigate Sean Brown murder

Northern Ireland Secretary Hilary Benn said he is ‘carefully considering’ a recent judgment from the Court of Appeal in Belfast.

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3 w. ago PM urged to ‘do the right thing’ and order public inquiry into Sean Brown murder

The GAA official was abducted and murdered by loyalists in Co Londonderry in 1997

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3 w. ago SNP Government slated over 'failure' to build £1bn replacement for Barlinnie jail sooner

The union representing prison officers hit out after a damning report found the Victorian-era Barlinnie nick is 30 per cent overcrowded.

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3 w. ago Major inquiry into Southport murders launched as Yvette Cooper vows to unearth failings

Yvette Cooper said the public inquiry into the Southport murders at a Taylor-Swift themed dance class will probe failings that allowed Axel Rudakubana to commit 'horrendous attack'

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3 w. ago David Lammy says Trump has taken US economic policy back 100 years with ‘return to protectionism’ – UK politics live

David Lammy, foreign secretary, says UK is ‘a nation that believes in open trade’ and says government is negotiating with US over economic agreementThe official plan to increase access to NHS dental services in England has been a “complete failure”, and some of the government’s initiatives have worsened the crisis, a damning report warns, Andrew Gregory reports.David Lammy, the foreign secretary, is at the Nato HQ in Brussels this morning, where Nato foreign ministers are meeting. Speaking to the media, he said President Trump was taking US economic policy back almost a century by embracing protectionism. He said:The United Kingdom, like France, is a great maritime nation.We are a nation that believes in open trade, and I regret the return to protectionism in the United States, something that we’ve not seen for nearly a century. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Eljamel inquiry chairman will ‘listen to those whose voices have not been heard’

Lord Weir is chairing a public inquiry into former Dundee-based neurosurgeon Sam Eljamel who left dozens of patients with life-changing injuries.

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3 w. ago Government failure to order public inquiry into Sean Brown murder ‘cannot stand’

The GAA official was murdered in 1997 by loyalists.

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