6 h. ago When Kemi met Sandie...Tory leader says if the SNP don't know what a woman is they shouldn't be running Scotland

Health bosses must end the 'bureaucratic oppression' of Sandie Peggie, Kemi Badenoch has said following talks with the 'remarkable' nurse who fought for single-sex spaces.

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8 h. ago Tribunal nurse Sandie Peggie ‘has been through hell’, Kemi Badenoch says

The Tory leader met nurse Sandie Peggie in Edinburgh on Thursday – and afterwards called on the UK Government to issue updated gender guidance.

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10 h. ago Keir Starmer asks 'Where is the money, John?' in dig at SNP leader on flying visit to Scotland

Starmer would not be drawn on whether his job was at risk if Labour performs badly at the Scottish Parliament election in May.

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5 d. ago Eddie Izzard: ‘I once ran 90km in just under 12 hours. That was a tough day’

The comedian and actor on her favourite Bond film, revisiting the Death Star canteen and escaping the red carpet with Brad PittWhen you started performing your one-woman Hamlet, how much did you labour over your delivery of the play’s most iconic lines, such as “To be or not to be”?The first thing I found when I was rehearsing Hamlet was that I felt very at home. I thought, “That’s unusual – I should be quaking in my boots!” I just felt very at ease and happy to be there. But the first time I performed “to be or not to be” on stage, there was a sense of – aren’t bells supposed to ring here? Isn’t there supposed to be a klaxon? Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Secret heartbreak of the 'vigilante mum' (of seven) running to be Reform's London mayor whose French husband left her and their children to run off to Dubai with another woman

She is the glamorous lawyer Nigel Farage hopes will topple Sadiq Khan to become Mayor of London - but behind Laila Cunningham's tough rhetoric lies a secret heartbreak.

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7 d. ago John Swinney accuses Nigel Farage of 'basic racism' over who can claim child benefits

The SNP leader claimed Nigel Farage was "quite actively engaged in a competition with the Conservative Party to be the nastiest of all parties"

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8 d. ago US immigration officer shoots and kills woman in Minneapolis

US government officials have claimed the woman was trying to run over ICE officers

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8 d. ago Woman is shot DEAD by ICE after 'trying to run officers over in act of domestic terrorism'

A woman was allegedly shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer before crashing her car in Minneapolis.

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8 d. ago Scots Tory leader Russell Findlay right to call out SNP over Scotland's eye

Economic growth, not extra benefits, is the best way to address Scotland’s poverty problem

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9 d. ago Behind the photo: How a woman running from US bombs in Venezuela captured the night's fear and chaos

A photo of 21-year-old Mariana Camargo dashing through the streets of eastern Caracas as explosions boomed in the background was soon on front pages of major international outlets

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9 d. ago Woman on run after ‘killing girls with poisoned raspberries’ is arrested

Zulma Guzman Castro had gone missing after she had been allegedly behind a plot to kill people using raspberries — but now she has been found and detained by UK police

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9 d. ago Woman on the run for 'killing girls with poisoned raspberries' arrested in London

Woman on the run for 'killing girls with poisoned raspberries' arrested in London  London Evening Standard

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1 week ago Anas Sarwar challenges John Swinney to TV debates in bid to close Holyrood poll gap

The Scottish Labour's call has echoes of the strategy pursued by former SNP leader Alex Salmond nearly twenty years ago.

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1 week ago John Swinney to launch SNP's Holyrood election campaign with independence push

The SNP leader will tell activists that May’s election is the “chance to empower ourselves to fundamentally address the biggest long-term issues” facing Scotland.

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2 w. ago Woman threatened 'you'll kiss the devil' before running over and killing boyfriend

Geovanna Proque da Silva has been accused of running down and killing Raphael Canuto da Costa and Joyce Correa da Silva in Sao Paolo, Brazil, in a fit of jealousy

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2 w. ago Woman wags her finger at journalist who asks her if she's running a daycare out of stunning Seattle home

A headscarf-wearing woman scolded a journalist for asking her if she is running a daycare out her Washington home on Tuesday.

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2 w. ago Somali woman wags her finger at journalist who asks her if she's running a daycare out of stunning Seattle home

A headscarf-wearing woman scolded a journalist for asking her if she is running a daycare out her Washington home on Tuesday.

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2 w. ago Cat bans to seagull gate: The maddest moments from Scottish politics in 2025

It was a year when John Swinney said he wouldn't be banning cats, Reform's deputy leader held a press conference outside a chippie, and an SNP minister quit in a row over seagulls. As 2025 ends, Chris McCall looks back at a memorable 12 months in Scottish politics.

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2 w. ago Woman 'is seen running along street covered in blood amid crowbar rampage': Afghan man, 20, is arrested after 'attacking five people' in hospital waiting room 'when he was refused an appointment'

A woman was seen running along the street covered in blood amid a crowbar rampage in a hospital waiting room where five people were injured.

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2 w. ago Newton hospital incident saw woman 'run for help covered in blood' after 'crowbar attack'

Merseyside Police have arrested a 20-year-old male suspect, originally from Afghanistan, after five people were allegedly assaulted in a suspected crowbar attack at Newton Community Hospital

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