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Scottish Labour’s acting leader Jackie Baillie said she was not sure that two mainland health boards would be sufficient and called for a specific board covering the Highlands and north east.She said the SNP’s attitude towards the health service is to “promise the world but “deliver nothing but failure”, adding that Scotland’s patients “deserve so much better”.Reform UK Scotland leader Malcolm Offord describes Swinney’s pledges as the “same old empty promises, rebranded”.He criticised plans including GP walk-in clinics, food price caps and the “welcome to school” bag for primary one pupils as “gimmicks”, not “reforms”.The Scottish Greens were critical of…

Rebecca Stokell finds a unique way of reaching her half-century as the Ireland batter gets to 50, only to see the runs changed to leg-byes, before wrongly being given out, before reaching 50 again in the first One Day International against England in Leicester. FOLLOW LIVE: England v Ireland – First ODI Available to UK users only.

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Under the current scheme in Scotland, long-term prisoners – those serving four years or more – become eligible for parole halfway through their prison sentence. If they don’t get parole, they are freed automatically when they have six months left to serve.The Scottish government wants to change the automatic release point to two-thirds of the sentence.This would apply to all long-term prisoners, including people convicted of unlawful killing, rape, child abuse, drug trafficking, and attempted murder.The proposals are complex, but if they were backed by parliament at least 630 prisoners would be freed straight away.Another proposal would change the designation…

Former Portsmouth goalkeeper Alan Knight has died aged 65 after being diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2024.Knight spent 22 years playing at Fratton Park, making 801 appearances between 1978 and 2000 – the record for a keeper at a single English club.Pompey fans gave him the nickname The Legend and after retiring he became both a coach and ambassador for the club.In a moving tribute to their former player, a club statement, external said: “The word legend is often overused in football, but the fact that Alan was still known as The Legend at Pompey more than 20 years after…

A warehouse operator in Wigan will stop transport operations overnight after residents campaigned over noise.Logistics firm Whistl said it will “cease nighttime transport operations” at PLP Astley from 7 September after a campaign by Astley Warehouses Action over the “horrendous” noise of lorries moving around the site.The announcement came after the firm met campaigners and Greater Manchester Mayor Bev Craig last week.”The processing of mail and parcels will continue within the depot and we will adjust our transport operations to ensure that we meet our commitments to Whistl customers,” the firm said.Transport operations will stop between 00:00 and 06:00 BST,…

A busy Ryanair flight from Glasgow to London was delayed a staggering seven hours after a mass brawl broke out between passengers.Flight RK329 was due to leave Glasgow Airport for London Stansted at 7pm on August 27, when passengers faced hours of disruption before the aircraft eventually left in the early hours of Friday morning.Flight tracking information indicates the service did not depart until around 2.30am, more than seven hours after its scheduled departure time. Ryanair later confirmed the flight left at 2.25am.During the lengthy wait at the airport, one passenger posted on X claiming that a confrontation had broken…