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An Ohio blogger is facing criminal charges after allegedly sending a state senator a digitally altered image depicting the animated character Shrek with exposed genitals. D.J. Byrnes, who publishes political gossip newsletter The Rooster, was arrested at the Ohio Statehouse and charged with telecomm
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To Inverness and McBain’s, a small family owned restaurant by the river, is our choice after a morning marvelling at the bronze age Clava Cairns and tramping through the steady drizzle of Culloden moor. My ancestors served in Lord Ogilvy’s regiment at Culloden and I once discovered an ac
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The unsolved murder of Stevan Markovic, the Serbian bodyguard and associate of French film star Alain Delon, became an immense scandal in the Paris of 1968 engulfing the highest politicans in the land and highlighted Delon’s connections with gangsters. Rumours also abounded about orgies organ
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The judges have whittled down scores of entries to the 2026 Scottish Legal Awards to reveal a shortlist.
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An international team of experts have joined forces to simplify laws and legal documents, making them clearer and easier for people and organisations to follow. The complexity of rules often hinders rather than helps users, reducing innovation and competitiveness, and increasing compliance costs.
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A lord ordinary hearing a “wrongful birth” case has found that the father of a child with Down’s syndrome who would not have been born but for the negligence of a medical board that failed to comply with the mother’s requests for abnormality screening tests was entitled to da
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Westwater Advocates remembers Edwin Sheeran. Ed joined Westwater Advocates last year and from the word go he worked with us with energy and a real commitment to build a successful personal injury practice. Agents working in that area quickly picked up on Ed’s very friendly and approachable dem
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A scaffolder who left two women fearing for lives after repeatedly strangling them during violent attacks has been jailed. Andrew McLaughlin, of Banknock, was found guilty of seven charges, including multiple rapes, following a trial at the High Court in Stirling.
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Our weekly round-up of human rights stories from around the world. Lee's peace policy can improve N. Korea's human rights conditions: unification ministry
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The High Court has approved a Group Litigation Order (GLO) to manage a major legal action against Johnson & Johnson brought by claimants who allege they developed cancer after using Johnson’s Baby Powder. In a judgment handed down yesterday in Fuschillo and others v Johnson & Johnson a
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The widow of murdered Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane has described the opening of the long-awaited public inquiry into his death as a “monumental day” for her family. The inquiry began on Wednesday, more than 37 years after Mr Finucane was shot dead by Ulster Defence Association gunmen a
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A bronze and limestone fountain by German sculptor Georg Kolbe has sold for a record €4 million (c. £3.5m) at Villa Grisebach in Berlin, 85 years after it was looted by the Nazis from its original owners.
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Bird & Bird is hosting a webinar on deepfakes next month. Deepfakes and the Law: Global Liability, Evidence and the New Risk Landscape will be held on 1 July 2026, 1–2pm BST, as part of the firm's AI Disputes Decoded series.
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A woman co-accused of murder and given a life sentence with a 16-year punishment part on her conviction has lost her appeals against conviction and sentence after the High Court of Justiciary rejected an argument that an earlier jury verdict found to be incompetent ought to have resulted in her acqu
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