Official figures reveal a record high of over 19,000 homeless households, including 13,000 children, in temporary accommodation across Scotland in March. This represents a substantial increase from the previous year, highlighting persistent systemic failures in housing policy.
Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch has dismissed former Prime Minister Sir Tony Blair's recent policy critiques of the Labour government, advising him to vote Conservative instead of offering counsel to Sir Keir Starmer's party. Her comments come in response to Blair's essay arguing Labour lacks a 'coherent plan' and has introduced policies detrimental to business.
Muhammad Amaad and Mohammed Fahir Amaaz will not face a second retrial for assaulting a police officer at Manchester Airport, after two juries at Liverpool Crown Court could not reach verdicts. One man, Amaaz, has already been convicted of assaulting two female officers and a Starbucks customer from the same incident and awaits sentencing.
