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Anti-corruption officers in Scotland Yard investigated over allegations of rigging disciplinaries
The police drama Line of Duty was fiction. But this is fact. Not AC-12 but a real-life anti-corruption unit inside the largest force in the country.
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May in Scotland as party licks its wounds over English local election losses
After a terrible night for the Conservatives in English local elections, Theresa May hasn’t exactly been feeling the love in other parts of the Union today either.
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Scotland to transform the way it tackles domestic abuse
Police dealing with domestic abuse have traditionally focused on evidence of physical violence. But Scotland’s new Domestic Abuse Act, which comes into force on Monday, will transform the way cases are handled. It includes a new offence of coercive and controlling behaviour – abusive relationships where one partner dominates and controls the other. But how…
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FactCheck: Independent Scotland would have to agree to adopt Euro after joining EU
Under EU law, a new member state is required to join the euro – but there is no compulsory timetable.
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Scotland rolls out it’s own version of the DWP
The UK Government’s welfare reforms have been described as a “vehicle for cuts” by the Labour party, as they attempted to force ministers to publish what effects universal credit has had on people’s incomes.
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Corbyn promises ‘industrial renaissance’ during Scotland visit
Promising an “industrial renaissance”, the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has begun a four-day visit to Scotland, aimed at reviving the party’s fortunes north of the border. Mr Corbyn said a Labour government would put more public investment into key industries and create more jobs, but would that involve clashing with the European Union over state aid rules? We have been to…
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Royal Bank of Scotland to pay first dividend in a decade
The Royal Bank of Scotland has announced it will pay its first dividend in nearly ten years. The bank is still two-thirds publicly owned after being bailed out at the height of the financial crisis. Earlier this week there was anger from many small businesses after RBS learnt it would face NO action from the financial watchdog…
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Grenfell Inquiry: Scotland Yard to investigate if lives were lost as result of “stay put” instruction
Scotland Yard is to investigate the London Fire Brigade over its use of the stay put policy during the Grenfell Tower Fire after claims that it cost lives – and should have been abandoned far earlier. Lawyers for the Fire Brigade told the public inquiry into the fire that a mass evacuation of the building would have been extremely difficult…
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Independent Scotland ‘could keep pound for several years’
An independent Scotland could end up keeping the pound for several years while preparing to move over to its own currency, according to a report commissioned by the SNP. The Sustainable Growth Commission, set up to investigate the country’s future economic prospects, aims to show how Scotland could go it alone, but opponents say there’s…
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Scotland becomes first country in world to impose minimum price for alcohol – but will it work?
There’ll be no more cheap booze in Scotland from today: it’s just become the first country in the world to impose a minimum price for alcohol. Health campaigners have described it as the biggest public health breakthrough since the smoking ban.
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Elderly at risk from snow in Scotland
In Scotland – where yellow weather warnings remain in place – the government has opened up an emergency funding scheme to help local authorities cope. Ciaran Jenkins reports.
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Scotland’s drug deaths crisis
We can reveal the major drugs plight of Dundee in Scotland, a city where the scale of drugs deaths is greater than anywhere in the UK, which in turn has by far the highest death rate in the European Union. Channel 4 News has learnt that in January alone there were 12 suspected…
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How Scotland is dealing with knife crime
Initiatives like Police Scotland’s Violence Reduction unit – set up to tackle all kinds of violent behaviour, including knife crime. Over a decade on – they say Glasgow is no longer the ‘murder capital of Europe’. Our Scotland correspondent Ciaran Jenkins has been finding out more about their work.
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Scotland first country to introduce minimum alcohol price
Scotland will become the first country in the world to charge a minimum price for alcohol. Ministers said the 50p-per-unit minimum would help tackle Scotland’s “unhealthy relationship with drink”. The Scottish government can now introduce the measure after the Supreme Court ruled that the legislation did not breach European Union law, five years after it…
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Baroness Scotland: Commonwealth dealing with ‘multiplicity of incidents’
The head of the Commonwealth, Baroness Scotland, who was born in Dominica, talks about Hurricane Maria.
