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Worst of Westminster: Labour Lords U-turn and interest rates hike

Good evening and welcome to the latest edition of The Worst of Westminster! The week kicked off with MPs voting overwhelmingly to approve the…

The National (Scotland)

Yousaf sides with council in Home Office row over housing asylum seekers on ship

Edinburgh City Council is contesting plans for the MS Victoria, docked in Leith.

The Independent UK

'Chance to change the world': Scots firm welcomes LSE report into renewable potential

THE UK has the opportunity to “change the world when it comes to renewable energy”, a Scottish company leading in the tidal stream energy sector…

The National (Scotland)

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UK Government needs to take decisive action as mortgage costs soar on rising interest rates

Jeremy Hunt has to get lenders to do all they can to support hard pressed customers

Birmingham Post

Brexit's damage to Scotland laid bare in shocking new report

A NEW paper detailing the scale of the damage Brexit has inflicted upon Scotland has been published by the Scottish Government.

The National (Scotland)

Mortgage crisis set to escalate as Bank of England hikes interest rates to 5%

More than 1.4 million mortgage holders could lose at least a fifth of their disposable income in additional repayments.

Daily Record

Bank of England raises interest rates to 5%

The Monetary Policy Committee votes in favour of raising rates for the the 13th time in a row

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Axed Livingston Covid vaccine contract cost taxpayers £358million

The contract was axed by ministers in 2021

Daily Record

MPs demand to ‘cut through Whitehall bureaucracy’ and get jailed British-Russian dissident home

Vladimir Kara-Murza, who holds a British passport, has been jailed for 25 years by a Moscow court for opposing the invasion of Ukraine

The Independent UK

MPs call for more help for jailed British-Russian dissident

Vladimir Kara-Murza, who holds a British passport, has been jailed for 25 years by a Moscow court for opposing the invasion of Ukraine.

The Independent UK

Axed Livingston Covid vaccine contract cost taxpayers £358million

French firm Valneva was supposed to manufacture more than 100 million vaccines at its site in Livingston but the contract was axed by ministers in 2021.

Daily Record

UK Government Minister attacks Welsh Government for not having a Wales Covid inquiry

'If people aren't willing to accept and acknowledge a problem and instead, try and suppress any legitimate criticism I don't think you can ever get to the bottom of a problem and resolve it'

Wales Online

Axed Covid vaccine deal with Livingston firm cost taxpayers £358m

THE UK Government has been accused of “absolutely shafting” a Scottish vaccine plant after it emerged a contract it axed cost taxpayers £358.6…

The National (Scotland)

Axed Covid vaccine contract cost taxpayers £358 million

French company now considering selling the plant specially built in Livingston to manufacture the vaccines

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The Independent UK

Axed Covid vaccine contract cost taxpayers £358m

The UK Government pulled out of the deal with French firm Valneva in 2021.

Daily Record

Lorna Slater quizzed on £9m loan given to Circularity Scotland from national investment bank

The under-pressure Green MSP has faced repeated calls to resign from her government job following the collapse of the deposit return scheme.

Insider UK

Slater unable to say if SNIB cash given to DRS administrator will be returned

National investment bank chair admits that the whole £9m investment could be lost as a result of Circularity Scotland going bust

Insider UK

Scottish companies named and shamed for not paying minimum wage

39% of employers deducted pay from workers’ wages, while 39% failed to pay workers correctly

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Wales Online

The Welsh companies named and shamed for failing to pay staff minimum wage

Four Welsh companies owed workers nearly £40,000 between them

Insider UK

Grangemouth refinery net zero targets 'must include whole town'

Committee also called on the UK Government to back the Acorn carbon capture project this summer

The Independent UK

Controversial legacy Bill is human rights-compliant, says Heaton-Harris

The Bill is set to reach the report stage at the House of Lords on Wednesday.

The National (Scotland)

Tory ministers dismiss concerns over UK 'diktat seeking to undermine Scotland'

A TORY minister has written to an SNP MP to address “concerns” around the UK Government issuing a set of instructions to overseas officials…

The National (Scotland)

Circularity Scotland appoints administrators as 'consequence' of UK intervention

CIRCULARITY Scotland has appointed administrators as an “unforgivable consequence” of the UK Government’s intervention over the deposit return…

The Independent UK

Peers urged to reject Northern Ireland legacy bill

Amnesty International said no amendments can save the ‘deeply damaging’ bill.

The National (Scotland)

Lorna Slater issues statement as no confidence vote confirmed

CIRCULAR economy minister Lorna Slater has issued a statement dismissing a Tory vote of no confidence against her as "a shameless political…

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