6 h. ago SNP's top civil servant insists 'not everything is broken' amid pressure on services to make cuts

SNP ministers have pledged to cut £1.5bn from Scotland’s public sector.

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3 d. ago Major drive to cut phone call waits for tax and driving services under tech plan

CustomerFirst, a new team of experts, will be dedicated to cutting long phone queues, repeated form-filling and endless paperwork that Brits face when dealing with public services

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8 d. ago Body recovered from frozen pond believed to be missing woman

Emergency services had to cut through ice after the body was spotted

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9 d. ago Scots firefighters warn lives will be lost if service hit with more cuts

The warning comes ahead of Tuesday's Scottish Budget where SNP Finance Secretary Shona Robison will set out the government's spending plans.

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1 week ago Reform UK councils unveil plans for tax rises and service cuts

Party controls nine English councils and leads three minority administrations after last year’s local election wins

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2 w. ago Pete Hegseth issues formal censure to Democratic senator Mark Kelly

US defense secretary also started proceedings that could strip Kelly from retired military rank and cut pensionDefense secretary Pete Hegseth said on Monday that he had issued a formal censure to Democratic senator Mark Kelly and initiated proceedings that could strip the Arizona lawmaker of his retired military rank and cut his pension, escalating a dispute that began when Kelly urged service members to resist unlawful orders.Just days after a covert mission to capture Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro and strike the capital city, Hegseth announced that Kelly faces retirement grade determination proceedings, a rare administrative action that could see the former astronaut and navy captain demoted in his retired rank. Hegseth accused Kelly of making “seditious statements” that undermined military discipline. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Anas Sarwar accuses SNP of 'blowing a hole' in NHS founding principles

The Scottish Labour leader and former health service dentist, has vowed to make cutting waiting times and clearing backlogs a day-one priority if he is elected as First Minister in May.

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2 w. ago City of London warns amended budget already impacting services, more cuts ahead

City of London warns amended budget already impacting services, more cuts ahead  WTVQ

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3 w. ago Are you worried about the rise of Reform and Nigel Farage? Take our poll and have your say

Unions have warned their policies would create job losses, and Nigel Farage has failed to explain which public services his savage near £300 billion of cuts would focus on

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last month Danish postal service to stop delivering letters after 400 years

PostNord’s decision to end service on 30 December comes after fear over ‘increasing digitalisation’ of Danish societyThe Danish postal service will deliver its last letter on 30 December, ending a more than 400-year-old tradition.Announcing the decision earlier this year to stop delivering letters, PostNord, formed in 2009 in a merger of the Swedish and Danish postal services, said it would cut 1,500 jobs in Denmark and remove 1,500 red postboxes amid the “increasing digitalisation” of Danish society. Continue reading...

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