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On 31 October last year, reports emerged that Rockstar North, the well-known games developer, had dismissed more than 30 staff in the UK – sparking headlines for all the wrong reasons, writes Robin Turnbull. The Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain moved quickly to tell media that
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New legislation has been published that aims to give councils more choice in how they design and apply a visitor levy to raise funds for local tourist services. While local authorities currently have the power to apply a charge on overnight stays based on a percentage of accommodation costs, t
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A sheriff has granted division and sale of a matrimonial home at the instance of a divorcing husband who left the property after his marriage broke down after finding that the needs of the couple’s 14-year-old child did not prevent the property from being sold. Pursuer F and defender T separat
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A woman has been awarded £1,000 in compensation after her mother’s ashes were mistakenly sent through an EU country, opened by border officials and returned with some of the contents spilled. The daughter, referred to as Mrs R in proceedings, had paid £1,440 to direct cremation fir
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In 2014 Edinburgh’s controversial new tram system finally opened to the public and the highly scrutinised Edinburgh Tram Inquiry got underway, writes Steven Stewart. By 2023 a second phase of the tramline had been completed and the inquiry by Lord Hardie concluded. In recent months, City of Ed
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A mother and daughter who shared “deeply disturbing” neo-Nazi, antisemitic, racist and transphobic material on social media have been jailed after admitting a catalogue of hate crimes. Shirley Craughwell, 51, posted material describing non-white people as “a different species&rdquo
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An Airdrie sheriff has made a residence order in favour of the mother of three children who fled the family home as a result of abuse towards the children and herself, which resulted in two criminal convictions in 2025, but allowed the father to have indirect contact by email. Pursuer CT, who had an
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Northern Ireland's justice minister, Naomi Long, has rejected calls for mediation to resolve a long-standing dispute over criminal legal aid fee levels. Members of the Criminal Bar Association (CBA) yesterday withdrew services from all legally-aided Crown Court fees in a significant escalation of in
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A Livingston sheriff has ordered the removal of the occupant of a house formerly subject to a Scottish Secure Tenancy, whose mother had been the tenant until July 2023, after finding that he had not entered into a new oral tenancy with the landlord in his correspondence with them in the following mo
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Renovation and safety works at Ayr Sheriff Court have already cost more than £250,000, with further work still to be completed. A freedom of information request by the Ayr Advertiser shows that £262,898 has been spent across two phases of repairs at the scaffolded court building, and tha
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Ghana has asked self-proclaimed prophets to submit their prophecies for government review. An online portal has been established by Ghana's presidential envoy for inter-faith and ecumenical relations to review "sensitive prophecies", The Economist reports.
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A solicitor who claimed she was working an average of 28 hours per day has been struck off the roll in England and Wales. Samina Ahmed recorded false time entries for 7,551.70 hours of work between 1 July 2021 and 30 June 2022 – an average of 28.24 hours per day.
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Saudi Arabia carried out 356 executions in 2025, the highest number recorded in a single year in the kingdom. Observers have linked the sharp rise to Riyadh’s intensifying “war on drugs”, with many of those arrested in earlier years being executed following the conclusion of legal
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