Thousands of people have objected to plans for a huge housing estate at United States President Donald Trump’s golf complex near Aberdeen. The Trump Organisation wants to build 550 homes, golfing chalets and a sports centre next to the Trump International Golf Links north of the Scottish city. Planners have received more than 3000 objections […]
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Two senior Scottish Conservatives are said to have threatened to resign if any Brexit deal includes different arrangements for Northern Ireland. Tory leader in Scotland Ruth Davidson and Scottish Secretary David Mundell have written to Prime Minister Theresa May claiming any such arrangement would undermine the UK’s integrity. The BBC reports that both are prepared […]
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Britain’s most senior tax official says he received death threats after revealing that a customs arrangement favoured by Brexit hardliners could cost up to £20 billion. Jon Thompson, boss of Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) received two death threats and was forced to review security and change his route to work. They came after […]
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The Welsh Assembly has taken a step closer to giving the vote to 16 and 17-year-olds from 2022. They are also considering renaming the Assembly ‘The Welsh Parliament’ as part of a package of reforms due to be put before AMs for approval. If 40 of the 60 AMs say yes, Wales will follow Scotland […]
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Hundreds of homeless people have died in the UK over the past year, an investigation has discovered. More than 440 people have died on the streets or in temporary accommodation since October 2017. They include a former soldier and an astrophysicist who died in shop doorways, in tents in woodland and hostels. The figures, compiled […]
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The Scottish National Party’s MPs in Westminster will back any vote in Parliament to hold a second Brexit referendum. Scotland First Minister Nicola Sturgeon made the pledge on a ‘People’s Vote’ on any final Brexit deal as cross-party support grows for it nationwide. She also reiterated that her MPs would vote against the final Brexit […]
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Prime Minister Theresa May declared an end to austerity in her keynote speech to the Conservative Party conference this week. While her startling entrance to Abba’s Dancing Queen grabbed the headlines, her speech unveiled a number of new domestic initiatives: The end of austerity measures which led to huge public spending cuts over the last […]
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Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has drawn widespread criticism from across the political divide for accusing the EU of ‘acting like the Soviet Union’ over Brexit. Mr Hunt’s remarks, in a speech at the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham this week, were described as ‘ignorant and insulting’ by EU leader and diplomats. With the Brexit negotiations […]
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Wales could move towards independence from the UK if it crashes out of the EU without a deal, the new leader of nationalist party Plaid Cymru has warned. Adam Price, who replaced Leanne Wood, told The Guardian last week that no deal would spell economic disaster for the Welsh. He described a hard Brexit as […]
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One of Scotland’s most important historic sites has become a battleground again – this time over plans to build new homes on it. Culloden was where Bonnie Prince Charlie’s Jacobite rebels were defeated by the Duke of Cumberland in April, 1746. More than 1500 soldiers from both sides still lie there and it is a […]
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