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Last week the UK Covid-19 Inquiry heard that phones belonging to ministers were reset as well as delays in responding minutes of meetings.

Russian national Dmitry Khoroshev has been sanctioned as part of a crackdown on cyber crime group LockBit.

David Maggs and Michael Horton died within an hour of each other at HMP Parc, taking the number of people to die at the jail in recent weeks to nine.

Mr Swinney won a vote of MSPs.

Conor Murphy has been advised to rest pending medical tests, Sinn Fein vice president Michelle O’Neill said.

Scientists have developed a ‘sperm whale phonetic alphabet’ to understand more about how whales communicate.

April 2024 was the hottest on record for the month, EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service says.

Finance Minister Caoimhe Archibald said Stormont is not asking for more, but simply equal funding to the rest of the UK.

The departing leader said his heart would forever belong to Scotland.

Commons Leader Penny Mordaunt commissioned the guide to help politicians battle proliferating conspiracy theories.

It is 40 years since the late Queen opened the Thames Barrier, which has been closed 221 times to protect the capital from flooding.

He said the lost information was a ‘real embarrassment’ but a message leaked to the Nation.Cymru news website casts doubt on Mr Gething’s version

Chris Webb swore an oath to the King, as the Commons returned following the local elections.

The most common problem identified was that the corporation ‘often tells migration stories through a narrow political lens’.

The mayor said he wants to make free school meals permanent in London’s state primary schools.

Maternity Action said only 13% of women on maternity leave benefit from employers’ occupational maternity pay schemes, down from 44% in 2008.

The Prime Minister has summoned vice-chancellors to a meeting to discuss antisemitism on campuses and the safety of Jewish students.

Passengers are being urged to check before attempting to travel by train this week.

The Duke of Sussex has been the driving force behind the tournament he launched to support military veterans in 2014.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said he had already raised concerns about the humanitarian impact of an assault on Rafah with Benjamin Netanyahu.