49 h. ago Islanders welcome CalMac move to 'urgently review' South Uist ferry service

Pledge made at “crisis” meeting staged by businesses near Lochboisdale

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4 d. ago MoJ launches probe into Manchester Arena bomb plotter's brutal attack on prison guards

Hashem Abedi allegedly attacked three prison guards with 'makeshift weapons and hot cooking oil' - leaving officers sustained life-threatening injuries including burns, scalds and stab wounds

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8 d. ago CalMac: What is Scottish ferry company CalMac? How big is CalMac's fleet? What are the main challenges?

CalMac has hit the headlines for ferry breakdowns and service problems - but how big is the fleet at the ferry firm’s disposal, what is its history and what are the major challenges to come?

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1 week ago Delivered to a Predator: Al Fayed’s Fixer review – this startling tale urgently needed telling

Dispatches, presented by Cathy Newman, talks to 16 survivors or witnesses of the ex-Harrods boss’s abuse, as well as tracking down his alleged enabler. The result is a raw, horrifying and invaluable watchIt is disturbingly easy to respond with little more than fatigue to reports of powerful men sexually exploiting women, because there have been so many. The part of us that should emit shock, disgust and righteous outrage becomes dulled through overuse. And so, when Mohamed Al Fayed, the billionaire former owner of Harrods, died in 2023 and was then credibly accused of being one of Britain’s worst sex offenders, the collective reaction felt like a shrug.The new Dispatches investigation, Delivered to a Predator: Al Fayed’s Fixer, however, ought to sharpen our revulsion and our resolve to fight for change. Building on the 2017 Dispatches documentary Behind Closed Doors and the 2024 BBC programme Predator at Harrods, it outlines the scale of the tycoon’s wrongdoing: last year, the Metro...

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2 w. ago Millionaire businesswoman left abandoned on Tube platform by TfL staff after 'traumatising' attack

Sally Wynter has called for urgent safety review after no one came to her aid when she hit emergency button at busy central London station

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2 w. ago Millionaire businesswoman abandoned on Tube platform for 30 minutes by TfL staff after 'traumatising' attack

Sally Wynter has called for urgent safety review after no one came to her aid when she hit emergency button at busy central London station

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4 w. ago Urgent review of gun laws urged after triple killer who plotted mass school shooting exposed ‘major failure’

The government is ‘urgently looking’ to tighten controls around private gun sales after Nicholas Prosper murdered his family and plotted to kill 30 children with a weapon he bought for £650

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