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The youngster from Livingston impressed MSPs when he spoke to the Public Petitions Committee.

Environmental campaigners were prepared to resist any such move.

Seamus Leheny, from Logistics UK, told Stormont’s Infrastructure Committee there is no shortage of fuel on forecourts.

The presence of the antibodies suggests someone has had the virus or has been vaccinated.

Alena Semenova, 22, and Tetyana Tsybanyuk, 40, fled Kyiv after their neighbourhood came under bombardment.

Grant Shapps told troops ‘you cannot just get up and go’ after reports up to four are feared to be trying to join the fight against Russia.

Coca-Cola, Starbucks and McDonald’s said on Tuesday they were all suspending operations in Russia amid a growing consumer backlash.

Some 4,600 patients are waiting for a kidney transplant in the UK.

A third of families with children said they had struggled to pay household bills over the previous week, comparethemarket.com said.

Vadym Prystaiko told MPs that Britain’s visa bureaucracy had been ‘tough’ for Ukrainians to wade through even before the conflict with Russia started.

Figures from data firm Experian Catalist show the average cost of a litre of the fuel at UK forecourts reached a record 165.2p on Tuesday.

Pupils with multi-sensory impairment cannot access specialist teachers in 52% of local authorities, report finds.

Irish politicians were also warned that continuing uncertainty over post-Brexit arrangements for Northern Ireland is ‘dampening’ investment.

The company sent an offer of ‘Bet £5 get 100 free spins’ to 41,395 people who had voluntarily self-excluded in an effort to stop gambling.

There are 4,600 people, including nearly 100 children, waiting for a kidney transplant.

A report by the Sutton Trust found that a third of teachers in state schools said they did not have the funding to provide quality advice.

The food poverty campaigner told the Works and Pension Committee that the home situation of children living in poverty was ‘already untenable’.

Exact locations of the protests are yet to be announced.

The aircraft was detained on the orders of Transport Secretary Grant Shapps.

As Crufts returns this week, Aviva said it receives around 800 accidental damage claims in the UK each year where dogs play a part.