A court has thrown out a £50m compensation claim against the Scottish government over its doomed deposit return scheme. Waste management firm Biffa won a contract as part of plans to bring in the scheme, and later took ministers to court when the initiative was shelved. Biffa had been seeking £51.4m in damages at the […]
The chief constable of West Midlands Police (WMP) is to retire following a row over the force’s decision to ban Israeli football fans from a match in Birmingham for safety reasons. Craig Guildford will step down with immediate effect, West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner Simon Foster said on Friday. “In doing so, he has
What led to the downfall of the chief of West Midlands Police goes beyond a football match and the exclusion of a fan base. It is a scandal that exposed skewed approaches while navigating the complexities and sensitivities of policing the ripples of the Israel-Gaza war and inflamed tensions in Birmingham. And above all, it
A former Tory councillor has been jailed for 20 weeks after being found guilty of stalking ex-cabinet minister Dame Penny Mordaunt. Edward Brandt, 61, was found guilty of the offence in November following a trial at Southampton Crown Court, but was acquitted of the more serious offence of stalking involving serious alarm or distress. In
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Wholesale natural gas prices have risen by more than 40% this month as a raft of pressures, described by one analyst as a “perfect storm”, threaten to raise energy bills ahead. Day-ahead prices for UK delivery were at a six-month high on Friday, a rise of more than 14% on the day, as contracts across
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A man has been jailed for 29-and-a-half years for murdering his wife after their child revealed they were coerced into a plot to help him kill her. Robert Rhodes refused to attend his sentencing – because he maintains his innocence. Addressing this directly Judge Mrs Justice Ellenbogen said the defendant had now added “cowardice” to
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The UK wants to learn from Ukraine’s war time experience to tackle the threat of drones carrying weapons and drugs into British prisons, the deputy prime minister has said on a trip to the country. David Lammy has been in Ukraine to see how anti-drone measures used against Russian forces can be applied to UK
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You almost had to see it to believe it. Kemi Badenoch’s team could have chosen anywhere in Scotland to hold their media event on Friday morning. On Thursday, they picked a whisky distillery to talk tough on the cameras in the wake of Robert Jenrick’s alleged scheming and plotting with Nigel Farage. Conservative Party leader
Britain’s first ever self-flying full-sized helicopter has taken to the skies. The autonomous chopper is designed for treacherous high-risk missions and will be used by the Royal Navy to track submarines across the Atlantic. It comes amid rising geopolitical tensions and will be crucial to defending Britain and its NATO allies, the Navy says. The
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Rachel Reeves’s plans to curb cash ISA limits with the aim of fuelling a wave of stock market investing “are doomed to fail”, the boss of one of Britain’s biggest retail investment platforms has warned. Sky News has learnt that Michael Summersgill, chief executive of AJ Bell, which has more than £100bn of client assets
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