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Figen Murray campaigned for the law change after her 29-year-old son Martyn Hett was killed, with 21 other people, in the Manchester Arena bombing.

The improvements include better road signage, vehicle restraint systems, and more pedestrian crossings.

Ireland’s deputy premier Simon Harris held a late-night call with US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick.

Danny Kruger said the NHS would, if the Bill being considered passes into law, become the ‘national health and assisted suicide service’.

Members of Unite working for Capita’s Life and Pensions division in Glasgow and Manchester will walk out on Wednesday until April 7.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves will set out how she will balance the books against a backdrop of economic stagnation.

The Justice Secretary addressed the Scottish Police Federation conference in South Ayrshire on Tuesday.

On Wednesday, the Chancellor is expected to say the UK ‘must move quickly in a changing world’.

The swimmer, who turns 20 on Saturday, was ParalympicsGB’s most successful athlete at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games

Examples of Islamophobic abuse of the Mayor of London doubled in 2024, making it the second worst year for such abuse since he was first elected.

Dmitrii Ovsiannikov, 48, the former mayor of Sevastopol in illegally annexed Crimea, is facing seven counts of circumventing sanctions.

Both the Greens and Scottish Labour want changes to be made to the Land Reform (Scotland) Bill.

Charles and Camilla were set to meet with Pope Francis, who has just left hospital after facing pneumonia, at the start of April.

Iain Macrory, 61, died in the incident at Newton Wamphray, Moffat, last Wednesday.

The opposition criticised video footage of Michael Lowry making a gesture to a TD as the Dail was adjourned.

Former Booker Prize winner Sir Alan Hollinghurst said the award made him ‘pleased for writing and for the novel’.

On July 31 2024, a total of 2,129 children were on the register – a 3% increase on the year before.

Officers were called at 12.46pm on Tuesday, to Talbot Road in Notting Hill after a report a baby’s body had been found outside in a bag church.

Malcolm Flynn, 72, was knocked to the ground, trampled and kicked in the head when he used a public footpath in 2020.

Scottish climate action minister Alasdair Allan called for a discounted rate to be introduced with a level of discount ‘proportionate to need’.