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Finding Your Feet, which runs clubs all over the country for people who have lost limbs or were born with a limb difference, will run a new monthly climbing group at the Edinburgh International Climbing Arena, which boasts the largest indoor climbing wall in the world.    The move has been

A former NATO chief was denied an automatic visa waiver for entry to the US because records showed he had travelled to Iran – where he had assisted negotiations on Iran's nuclear deal with the West. Javiar Solana, a Spanish politician, was NATO secretary-general from 1995–99 and has held

A lawyer for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been given a four-year jail term for stealing the identities of immigrants who were facing deportation and using them to acquire credit cards and run up debts of more $190,300. Raphael Sanchez, 44, who was formerly the head of the ICE o

A man filed for divorce because his wife thought Cristiano Ronaldo was a better footballer than Lionel Messi.After celebrating Argentina's victory over Nigeria on June 26, husband Arsen left his wife of 14 years, Lyudmila, as she remained adamant that the Portugal star was the better player.Spe

A diabetic student has been awarded £2,000 in compensation after winning a discrimination case against a company that provided security staff at the music festival Tennent’s Vital in 2016. Kayla Hanna from south Belfast had her bottle of Lucozade confiscated by b

An international arrest warrant for former Catalan politician Professor Clara Ponsati has been withdrawn. Professor Ponsati, 61, an academic at St Andrews University, was arrested in March after she handed herself in to Police Scotland.

Doctors in the UK will be able to legally prescribe cannabis-derived medicinal products, though legislative amendments will be required in Northern Ireland before the change can be enforced. The Home Secretary Sajid Javid has said that products that meet the safety and quality standards are to be ma

Edinburgh Law School PhD candidate Álvaro García Martínez has been awarded the prize of "Laureate of the Arbitration Academy 2018". Mr Martínez was awarded the prize for his essay on the topic “Is there a need to reform the New York Convention of 10 June 1958?&rdquo

Via @thewssociety: Welcome to law student interns Elizabeth Olofsson @AberdeenUniLaw, Laura Crocker @UofGLaw & Andrew Clark @EdinburghNapier – starting their research on the impact of the 'Me Too' Movement on employment law.

A woman has availed herself of the ancient Norman rite of Clameur de Haro in an attempt to stop the narrowing of a road in Guernsey. Rosie Henderson invoked the clameur by kneeling and crying for help and reciting the Lord's Prayer, in Norman French.

An 87-year-old woman who was cutting dandelions near her home in rural Georgia was tasered by police last week and arrested for criminal trespass and obstruction. Chatsworth Police said Marth Al-Bishara refused to drop the steak knife she was using to cut the flowers despite several commands to do s

A soldier acquitted of rape who was sued by the complainer has been ordered to pay her £100,000 after he failed to defend the claim. Sean Diamond, 24, stood trial accused of raping a woman while she slept in a flat in Dundee in 2015.

Anderson Strathern has announced a new partner appointment in its commercial litigation team together with a raft of senior promotions and trainee retentions following a strong year of growth so far in 2018. Gillian Jamieson, who becomes partner, joined the firm in 2016 and has been instrumental in

Dr Claire McDiarmid of Strathclyde University has joined the homicide team at the Scottish Law Commission. Dr McDiarmid will work for several months as part of the team developing a Discussion Paper on the mental element of homicide. The homicide law reform project forms part of the Commission&

People campaigning to extend adoption rights to people over the age of 18 gave evidence to the Public Petitions Committee in the Scottish Parliament this morning. During his opening remarks, Nathan Sparling said that the current law that prohibits people over the age of 18 from being adopted is at o