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Figures reveal 1,500 drug-addicted babies born in Scotland since 2017
Opposition parties have called for a significant increase in addiction funding in Scotland after it emerged that more than 1,500 drug-addicted babies have been born in recent years.
The Scottish Liberal Democrats said data from the country’s health boards showed that around 200 babies were born each year with neonatal …
Helsinki arena to reopen in spring after being left in limbo by Russian sanctions
Helsinki’s main sports and entertainment arena is expected to reopen in the spring after getting caught in a Russian sanctions drama that left it disused, without power and starting to smell.
Helsinki arena, also known as Helsinki Ice Hall, has been closed since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, when …
Agnes Keleti, oldest living Olympic gold medallist, dies at 103
The world’s oldest living Olympic gold medallist, the Hungarian gymnast Agnes Keleti, who escaped the Holocaust with false identity papers and the Soviet Union’s brutal clampdown on her home country by emigrating to Israel, has died aged 103.
Keleti, who did not compete in an Olympics until she was 31 …
Twelve people including two children killed in Montenegro shootings
Twelve people, including two children, have been killed and four others seriously injured in southern Montenegro, authorities have said, in shootings that began in a restaurant and ended when the gunman shot himself in the head.
The shooter, identified as Aleksandar Martinović, 45, turned his weapon on himself after being …
Lidl enjoys record £1bn UK sales in run-up to Christmas
Lidl made more than £1bn in sales in the run-up to Christmas for the first time in the three decades the discount grocer has been operating in the UK as cash-strapped shoppers cut costs.
The German-owned discounter, which is close to overtaking Morrisons to become the UK’s fifth biggest supermarket …
UK needs to ban full hybrid cars by 2030 or face net zero ‘catastrophe’, says motoring body
Britain needs to press ahead with a ban on the sale of new hybrid cars with no plug from 2030 or risk taking “a catastrophic misstep” on the road to net zero, ministers have been warned.
Cars such as the Toyota Prius, which charge a battery from an internal combustion …
UK house prices rise for fourth month in a row, says Nationwide
House prices rose for a fourth consecutive month in December, ending 2024 on a “strong footing” with the cost of an average home hitting £269,426, according to Nationwide.
The building society’s monthly tracker found prices rose 0.7% in December on the previous month, with the annual increase in the value …
The end comes quickly for India’s fading champions ahead of Test series finale | Geoff Lemon
Australian tours have a habit of making or breaking Test careers. VVS Laxman and Rahul Dravid destroyed Australia’s world-record winning streak at Kolkata in 2001, overcoming one of the greatest teams and its champion bowlers Shane Warne and Glenn McGrath. By 2012, Australia’s home grounds ended Laxman and Dravid, four …
DWP spent £50,000 trying to stop release of review into disabled man’s death
More than £50,000 of taxpayers’ money was spent on lawyers to try to prevent the release of a safeguarding review ordered after a disabled man starved to death in his own home.
The costs were part of a bill of nearly £1m spent under the last government to prevent the …
Thursday briefing: Why Kemi Badenoch’s rough start as Tory leader shouldn’t be a surprise
Good morning. I hope you had a restful Christmas and New Year, spent in a spirit of calm and conviviality. Kemi Badenoch, the already embattled new leader of the Conservative party, spent hers on the front pages after picking an extravagantly unnecessary fight with Nigel Farage over
the reliability …