Anas Sarwar has vowed to ban transgender women from the female prison estate “within days” if he becomes first minister after the Holyrood election. The Scottish Labour leader has pledged his party will “act swiftly” to ensure prisons are “single-sex, based on biological sex” if it gets into power in May. His declaration comes ahead […]
Bangladesh has sentenced former prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, and her niece, Labour MP Tulip Siddiq, to jail in a corruption probe. The country’s corruption watchdog alleges that Hasina colluded with government officials to illegally secure six plots for herself and her family in a development near the capital, Dhaka. Now she’s been sentenced to 10
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The owner of Third Space, the premium London health clubs operator, is limbering up for a sale that could value it at about £700m. Sky News has learnt that KSL Capital Partners, the American private equity firm, has been holding talks with prospective advisers about an auction that would kick off either this year or
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Three victims of Provisional IRA bombings in England have discontinued their damages claim against former Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams. Their lawyers told London’s High Court their decision on Friday, the last day of the two-week trial. The claim will be discontinued with “no order as to costs” after “proceedings developed overnight,” according to Anne
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The family of a woman who was murdered by a serial rapist more than 20 years ago said there must be “no attempt” to shut down evidence at the public inquiry into the police’s handling of the case, as they met the chairman for the first time. Iain Packer murdered Emma Caldwell, 27, in 2005
Gold and silver costs took further punishment early on Monday following the record routs seen at the end of last week. Both precious metals had stood at record values on Thursday but fell sharply after Donald Trump revealed his nomination for the chair of the US central bank. The announcement on Friday that he wanted
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With performances from Sabrina Carpenter, Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga, this year’s Grammy Awards celebrated some of the biggest music stars in the world. It’s a ceremony with dozens of categories – so many, in fact, that a whopping 86 awards were handed out before the main show was broadcast. Here’s the list of winners
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Four Britons have died within four months of being struck down with stomach bugs while on holiday in Cape Verde, lawyers representing their families say. Elena Walsh, from Birmingham, Mark Ashley, from Bedfordshire, Karen Pooley, from Gloucestershire, and a 56-year-old man all died last year after contracting severe gastric illnesses while staying on the island
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In the end, it has been a scandal too far, even for Peter Mandelson. The latest explosive Epstein revelations first forced him to resign from his beloved Labour Party, he said, to save the party from “further embarrassment”. But then the furore over the disclosure that he leaked highly confidential and market sensitive information to
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“There was lots of bullying, harassment, exclusion from the team, from projects. A lot of things were going on.” For the first time, former TikTok worker Lynda Ouazar is speaking out to expose what she says was an environment of bullying, harassment and union busting at one of the world’s biggest social media companies. “I
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