The Scottish Mail on Sunday
POLICE PROBE SIX DEATHS AT BUG HOSPITAL
POLICE are now investigating the deaths of six patients who contracted infections while being treated at Scotland’s scandal-hit £1 billion superhospital, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. The deaths of three adults and three children at Queen Elizabeth...
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SIR TOM: I CRIED OVER CRISIS ON THE HIGH STREET
SIR Tom Hunter last night told how the devastating impact of Scotland’s dire economy on the high street had reduced him to tears. In a deeply personal message the former retail tycoon told how he cried during a visit to Ayr – where he had a store for...
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TRUMP: NOW I’M RUNNING VENEZUELA
THE United States dramatically seized control of Venezuela yesterday after capturing the country’s president as he tried to hide inside a panic room. On a day that stunned the world, Donald Trump said the US would now ‘run the country’ until a proper...
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TWENTY SCOTS SOLDIERS AXED IN DRUGS SHAME
TWENTY Scots soldiers have been booted out of the Army after being caught taking drugs – as a further ten squaddies are under investigation. An astonishing 30 soldiers in the Royal Regiment of Scotland have tested positive for drugs including cannabis...
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YOU’RE BARRED, RACHEL
RACHEL Reeves has been barred from her local pub because of her crippling tax rises bringing the hospitality industry to its knees. Landlord Martin Knowles has told the Chancellor not to try to enjoy a festive pint in the Marsh Inn in her Leeds...
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£1.7M HANDOUT FOR SWINNEY’S MSP QUITTERS
TAXPAYERS face a staggering £1.7 million bill to fund ‘golden goodbye’ payments for a mass exodus of Nationalist MSPs quitting Holyrood. An astonishing 40 per cent of the party’s 60 MSPs are stepping down at the election in May next year – including...
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DAD’S PLEA TO MEGHAN: SEE ME ONE MORE TIME BEFORE I DIE
MEGHAN Markle’s desperately ill father has sent a heartfelt message to his daughter, pleading: ‘I don’t want to die estranged.’ Thomas Markle, 81, appealed to the Duchess of Sussex to see him ‘one more time before I die’ as he lay in his hospital bed...
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REEVES MUST GO FOR HER BUDGET LIES SAY VOTERS
RACHEL Reeves should resign as Chancellor for ‘lying’ about the state of the nation’s finances in the run-up to her tax-raising Benefits Street Budget, voters have declared. A Mail on Sunday poll found a majority of more than two to one in favour of...
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STARMER PILES PRESSURE ON ANDREW TO TESTIFY IN U.S. OVER EPSTEIN
SIR Keir Starmer has heaped pressure on Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor to give evidence to the US Congress about what he knows about Jeffrey Epstein. The disgraced royal has so far ignored a request by American politicians to come forward with information...
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POLICE CHIEF’S £134K HANDOUT FOR 2ND HOME
SCOTLAND’S Chief Constable Jo Farrell has landed taxpayers with an eye-watering £134,000 bill to help her buy a second home, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. The police chief – who earns £270,000-a-year – has bought a £595,000 second home in an upmarket...
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BBC SCOTLAND FORCES SECOND STAR OFF THE AIR
A SECOND star presenter has been taken off air by BBC Scotland bosses amid claims of alleged misconduct during a live TV broadcast. Reporting Scotland news anchor Andrew Black was removed from his presenting duties less than a week after Loose Women...
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POLICE: COST OF INQUIRIES IS STOPPING US CATCHING CRIMINALS
POLICE last night warned that their ability to fight crime is being hampered by the spiralling cost of Scotland’s growing number of public inquiries. In a move that has sparked a fierce political row, Police Scotland claimed that paying out millions...
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ANDREW TOLD THE MET TO DIG UP DIRT ON VIRGINIA
PRINCE Andrew embroiled the Metropolitan Police and one of Queen Elizabeth’s most senior aides in a campaign to smear his teenage sex accuser, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. A bombshell email obtained by this newspaper exposes how Andrew asked his...
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ANDREW TO EPSTEIN: WE ARE IN THIS TOGETHER
PRINCE Andrew secretly told paedophile Jeffrey Epstein ‘we are in this together’ a day after The Mail on Sunday first published the infamous picture of the Duke with his alleged teenage sex victim, a bombshell email reveals. In the astonishing...
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RAYNER IS TAKING US FOR A RIDE
ANGELA RAYNER was last night accused of a ‘shameless’ waste of public money after her taxpayer-funded bodyguards ferried her partner around in an £80,000 car and helped move belongings into her second home. Pictures published exclusively in today’s...
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HARRY: MEN IN GREY SUITS ARE SABOTAGING MY REUNION WITH FATHER
PRINCE Harry last night lambasted ‘men in grey suits’ at Buckingham Palace, accusing aides of trying to sabotage his reconciliation with the King. The Duke’s furious broadside is an extraordinary echo of his mother Princess Diana’s criticism of...
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100 NEW EPSTEIN EMAILS ‘COULD DESTROY ANDREW’
PRINCE ANDREW could be ‘destroyed’ by a cache of more than 100 secret emails contained in the Epstein Files, The Mail on Sunday has been told. Multiple well-placed sources have revealed that potentially ‘incriminating’ emails between the Duke of York...
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BORIS & FARAGE ‘MUST UNITE TO CRUSH LABOUR’
NIGEL Farage and Boris Johnson have been urged to join forces to stop Labour winning the next General Election. Nadine Dorries, who sensationally defected from the Tories to Reform UK last week, said that the ‘biggest egos in modern British politics’...
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RAYNER USED TOP WEALTH PROTECTION FIRM IN DEAL OVER HOUSE
THE controversy over Angela Rayner’s tangled financial affairs deepened last night as it emerged that she employed the services of a company which specialised in ‘wealth protection’. The embattled Deputy Prime Minister – already accused of ‘flipping’...
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ASYLUM SHAM OF MIGRANT WHO RAPED GIRL, 15
THE small boats migrant who raped a 15-year-old girl after claiming asylum in Britain had lived as a tourist in THREE European cities before arriving in the UK. Sadeq Nikzad, 29, travelled 4,000 miles from his native Afghanistan to reach the UK and...
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ZELENSKY TRAPPED IN TRUMP AND PUTIN VICE
UKRAINE’S future as a sovereign nation was hanging in the balance last night after the superpower summit between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump. Critics warned that other world leaders were powerless to prevent Volodymyr Zelensky from being caught...
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STURGEON: SALMOND TRIED TO DESTROY ME
NICOLA Sturgeon sparked an explosive new political row with Alex Salmond’s family last night after claiming in her memoirs that he tried to ‘destroy’ her. In extracts from her book – for which she will receive £300,000 – Ms Sturgeon alleges Mr Salmond...
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73 HOLYROOD FAT CATS PAID OVER £100,000
THE number of Scots civil servants earning more than £100,000 a year has soared under the SNP, The Scottish Mail on Sunday can reveal. Taxpayers are footing the bill for a growing army of civil servants – many of whom are predominantly allowed to work...
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‘HYPOCRITE’ SWINNEY’S £180K GOLF SWEETENER FOR TRUMP
JOHN Swinney was at the centre of a major hypocrisy row last night after he pledged a donation of £180,000 of public cash for a golf tournament at one of Donald Trump’s Scottish courses. The First Minister was accused of offering the ‘cynical...
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TOP STARMER MANDARIN’S FIRM IS PAID FOR ‘SPY OPS’
ONE of Sir Keir Starmer’s most powerful advisers was last night accused of running secret diplomatic back channels to ‘terrorists’ using his own taxpayer-funded team of ‘outsourced spies and spooks’. Jonathan Powell, the Prime Minister’s National...
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REVEALED: THE SECRET HARRY PEACE SUMMIT
KING Charles and Prince Harry’s senior aides have held a secret peace summit, The Mail on Sunday can reveal, marking the first significant move towards resolving their rancorous family feud. Sources said last week’s meeting was the initial step in a...
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SNP SHAMBLES AS 10,000 FERRY TRIPS SCRAPPED
THE SNP’s ferry fiasco deepened last night as shock new figures revealed more than 10,000 trips to and from Scotland’s islands had to be cancelled. An astonishing 10,809 crossings were scrapped by Scotland’s crisis-hit ferry operator CalMac in just...
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NOW ARREST PUNK BAND WHO LED ‘DEATH TO ISRAELIS’ CHANTS AT GLASTONBURY
THE BBC and Glastonbury provoked outrage last night when a pro-Palestine punk act called for the death of Israeli soldiers during a live broadcast from the festival. In appalling scenes condemned by the British and Israeli governments, the lead singer...
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RED RAYNER’S WORKERS BILL ‘IS WRECKING BALL FOR THE UK ECONOMY’
BRITISH businesses have been urged to rise up and fight Angela Rayner’s crippling new labour laws, amid dire warnings of the devastating effects they will wreak on the economy. Conservatives have sent an open letter to company bosses this weekend...
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‘YOU’RE TURNED ON BY LUCY LETBY IN HER UNIFORM’
THE expert witness whose evidence helped to convict Lucy Letby is at the centre of an extraordinary row after claiming that the nurse’s supporters were motivated by a sexual attraction to ‘pretty young blonde females’. The bizarre outburst by Dr Dewi...
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BOY,8,TURNED AWAY BY NHS --BECAUSE HE IS A PRIVATE SCHOOL PUPIL
AN OUTRAGED mother has accused the NHS of ‘shocking discrimination’ after her eight-year-old son was denied vital treatment – just because he goes to private school. Tory MPs described the move as ‘morally indefensible’ and a symptom of Labour’s ‘vile...
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BRITISH DAD ‘SPYING FOR CHINA’ SEIZED IN FBI STING
A BRITISH businessman has been sensationally accused of spying for China and plotting to smuggle sensitive military technology to Beijing. John Miller, 63, was arrested on the orders of the FBI following a sting operation and is now awaiting...
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MI5 PROBES PUTIN LINK TO STARMER ARSON BLITZ
BRITISH spies are investigating whether Russia was behind a series of arson attacks on Keir Starmer’s property, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. Police say that two Ukrainians and a Romanian who have been charged over the incidents, involving two houses...
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NETFLIX AND PORN VIEWED ON CIVIL SERVANTS’ LAPTOPS
CIVIL servants have been watching Netflix and accessing porn websites on their SNP government-issued laptops, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. The staff – most of whom were working from home – streamed their favourite Netflix shows so many times in the...
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COMMIT ANY CRIME AND YOU’RE OUT, MIGRANTS TO BE WARNED
MIGRANTS could be kicked out of the country if they commit ANY crime under a planned government crackdown. Currently, foreign criminals are only reported to the Home Office if they receive a jail sentence – and only those given a year behind bars are...
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HARRY: NOW THE BACKLASH GROWS
PRINCE Harry faced a growing backlash from ministers, the Royal Family and the public last night over his bitter attack on King Charles. The Duke of Sussex caused widespread disbelief when he complained in a BBC interview that his father ‘won’t speak...
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STURGEON’S DEFIANCE OVER TRANS LEGAL CHAOS
NICOLA Sturgeon was yesterday defiant in the face of the SNP’s gender shambles and the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on the definition of a woman. The under-pressure former First Minister broke cover after TEN days of silence, and when quizzed by...
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MINISTERS IN WHATSAPP PLOT TO DEFY TRANS RULING
LABOUR ministers are secretly plotting to defy the landmark court ruling that men who change gender are not legally women, leaked WhatsApp messages obtained by The Mail on Sunday have revealed. The Government claimed to welcome the Supreme Court...
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SWINNEY GIVES HIS MINISTERS A £20,000 PAY RISE
JOHN SWINNEY has handed all of his Ministers a massive £20,000 pay rise, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. The First Minister quietly lifted a long-standing salary freeze for SNP Ministers on April 1, which allowed him to give them all a bumper salary...
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STARMER ROCKED AS MP HELD IN RAPE AND CHILD ABUSE PROBE
SIR Keir Starmer was last night rocked by the arrest of one of his MPs on suspicion of rape and child sex offences. Dan Norris, a former Labour minister who ousted Jacob Rees-Mogg as the MP for North East Somerset and Hanham at last year’s General...
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HARRY AND MEGHAN TOO TOXIC BLASTS CHARITY BOSS
THE head of Prince Harry’s African charity has issued a devastating broadside against the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, describing the couple’s brand as ‘toxic’. In one sensational interview, Dr Sophie Chandauka, chair of Sentebale – the organisation...
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SNP’S BROKEN PROMISE OVER £2M DRUG ROOM
ONLY a handful of drug addicts who have used the SNP’s controversial £2.3 million drugs ‘shooting gallery’ have been referred for recovery treatment, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. Just 2 per cent of visits to The Thistle in Glasgow have seen users...
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SPY CHIEF: I TOLD No10 COVID DID LEAK FROM CHINA LAB
A LABOUR minister was last night at the centre of an explosive row over claims he rubbished high-level intelligence pointing to Covid’s origins in a Chinese laboratory. The Mail on Sunday can reveal that a former spy chief submitted a secret dossier...
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STURGEON JEERED... AT AN SNP WOMEN’S DAY EVENT
NICOLA Sturgeon was booed and subjected to chants of ‘shame on you’ by female protesters at an International Women’s Day event yesterday. Demonstrators angrily shouted at the former First Minister as they accused her of ‘betrayal’ over her bid to...
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NOW STOP THE STATE VISIT FOR ‘BULLY’ TRUMP
DONALD Trump’s state visit to Britain should be shelved in the wake of his astonishing White House tirade against President Zelensky, a series of prominent public figures declared last night. The extraordinary shouting match – when President Trump and...
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SCOTS BENEFITS SHAMBLES COSTS YOU £45M A YEAR
BENEFIT cheats and bungling civil servants handing out cash in error are costing taxpayers £45 million a year, The Scottish Mail on Sunday can reveal. Both the UK and Scottish governments have wrongly doled out the eye-watering amount to claimants...
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ARMY CHIEF: PM HEADING FOR DUSTBIN OF HISTORY
SIR KEIR Starmer has been told he needs to increase UK defence spending dramatically to counter the threat of Putin – or face the prospect of his Premiership being consigned to the ‘dustbin of history’. The stark warning by former head of the Army...
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MINISTER SACKED FOR ‘HOPE YOU DIE’ JIBE ABOUT PENSIONERS
A LABOUR Minister has been sacked after The Mail on Sunday exposed his racist and sexist messages, including one vile post saying he hoped a pensioner who didn’t vote Labour would die before the next election. Andrew Gwynne also made anti-Semitic...
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POLICE FILE RAISES NEW DOUBT OVER LETBY GUILT
FRESH doubts were raised about the conviction of ‘killer’ nurse Lucy Letby last night, with the bombshell revelation of police notes suggesting the jury was misled over key evidence. The documents raise serious questions over the courtroom claim that...
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STRICTLY STAR’S VILE SEXUAL JIBE TO DANCER
THE BBC was facing a fresh crisis last night after a Strictly Come Dancing star was caught on film by The Mail on Sunday making a vile sexual comment about one of the show’s female hosts. Wynne Evans – the tenor known for the Go Compare ads and a BBC...
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WOMAN LEFT IN AGONY ON A&E TROLLEY FOR 50 HOURS
A WOMAN was left lying on a hospital trolley in A&E for 50 hours before receiving treatment, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. Mother-of-two Lynn Nelson – who was suffering from flu, pneumonia and a collapsed lung – said she believed she was going to...
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SKIVER’S CHARTER FOR MSPS
MSPs have been granted a ‘skiver’s charter’ after officials ruled details of the number of times politicians attend Holyrood can be kept secret. The decision means constituents will no longer be allowed to know how regularly their £72,000-a-year MSP...
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POLL: STARMER WILL BE OUT OF No 10 IN A YEAR
SIR Keir Starmer will be ousted as Prime Minister within a year, an exclusive poll for The Mail on Sunday has predicted – with furious voters attacking his poor handling of the economy, the NHS, immigration and the cost-of-living crisis. Nearly a...
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KEMI’S FURY AT TV CHIEFS ‘FAVOURING’ NIGEL FARAGE
KEMI Badenoch’s unprecedented feud with Nigel Farage escalated last night over claims she urged the head of a television station to cut the airtime given to the Reform UK leader. The Tory leader is said to have accused GB News of giving too much of a...
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‘THE GRINCH’ REEVES STEALS 45 OF YOUR DONATIONS, SAY CHARITIES
RACHEL Reeves was dubbed the Christmas Grinch last night as it was revealed that her Budget tax grab means 45 pence in every pound donated to charity will now effectively go to the Government. The Chancellor’s National Insurance raid will add an extra...
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STARMER’S ‘SURRENDER SQUAD’ TO UNDO BREXIT
SIR KEIR Starmer was last night accused of forming an EU ‘surrender squad’ to reverse Brexit. An all-powerful team of more than 100 civil servants is being assembled to run the UK’s negotiations with Brussels – with insiders claiming its purpose is to...
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FAYED FAKED DEMENTIA TO DODGE SEX ABUSE PROBE, SAYS HIS SON
MOHAMED Al Fayed evaded prosecution by tricking police into believing he had dementia, one of his sons reveals today. Omar Fayed, 37, said the deception allowed his billionaire father to escape justice over his alleged sexual crimes, now thought to...
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SWINNEY JEERED AT SALMOND MEMORIAL
FIRST Minister John Swinney was booed and branded a ‘traitor’ by mourners at the memorial service for his former ally Alex Salmond. The toxic political rift which has engulfed the SNP was laid bare as the Saltire-brandishing crowd taunted Mr Swinney...
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STARMER DECLARES WAR ON BENEFITS BRITAIN
SIR KEIR Starmer today pledges to crack down hard on the ‘bulging benefits bill blighting our society’ as he tries to steal the Tories’ political clothes over abuses of the welfare system. The Prime Minister uses an article in today’s Mail on Sunday...
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SNP ROCKED BY £ M CASH CRISIS
THE SNP faces a crippling half-a-millionpound financial black hole as the party is rocked by the worst cash crisis in its history. Tearful staff were told yesterday of plans to axe almost half of the workforce at SNP headquarters in Edinburgh. The...
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12 SCOTS TREATED IN A&E AFTER TAKING FAT JAB DOSES
TWELVE Scots have been taken to A&E with complications from ‘miracle’ weight loss injections in the same health board area where Britain’s first fat jab victim died. Nurse Susan McGowan, 58, suffered multiple organ failure, septic shock and...
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MOVES TO DROP ‘EMPIRE’ FROM KING’S HONOURS
RADICAL reforms being considered by royal officials could see the word ‘Empire’ dropped from British honours. Under the outline plans, those recognised with an OBE – Order of the British Empire – could instead choose to receive an Order of British...
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STARMER’S ‘DOUBLE LIE’ OVER £40BN TAX BLITZ
SIR Keir Starmer was last night accused of telling a ‘double lie’ by insisting the Budget would not be a ‘war on Middle Britain’ nor break Labour manifesto promises. Chancellor Rachel Reeves is preparing to hit employers with a whopping £20billion...
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SNP’S £150MILLION FERRY ALREADY NEEDS NEW PARTS
THE SNP’s beleaguered ferries project descended further into farce last night after it emerged one of its new £150 million vessels already needs replacement parts. And, astonishingly, shipyard workers have had to cannibalise the vital components from...
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Boost your wellbeing for ever with...’ Michael Mosley s daily ‘Just One Thing’ lifestyle tweaks
‘SO, will you take my Just One Thing challenge?’ asks Dr Michael Mosley, eyes glinting, in the first episode of a new TV series filmed by the Mail columnist. Tragically, only two episodes were completed before his untimely and shocking death aged 67...
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‘MISOGYNIST’ SCHOOLBOYS FACE TERROR UNIT PROBES
TEENAGE boys face investigation by anti-terrorism officers if they make sexist remarks in the classroom, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. Home Secretary Yvette Cooper wants teachers to report misogynistic comments to the government’s Prevent programme,...
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