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Scottish students at Edinburgh University start support group to counter ‘alienation’
From the first day Shanley Breese started her law degree at Edinburgh University, she encountered demeaning comments about her accent. She was told she was hard to understand, and was asked to repeat herself in tutorials when she used words from the Scots language.
“It was just a little thing …
Painstaking work to conserve Ireland’s oldest paper documents begins
Work has begun to conserve and digitise one of the oldest paper documents still in existence on the island of Ireland.
The ecclesiastical register, which dates back to the medieval period, is about 650 years old. It belonged to the former archbishop of Armagh Milo Sweteman.
Its delicate pages are …
MPs do not – and should not – always follow judicial orders | Letters
Stephen Sedley, writing of parliament’s freedom of speech and action, says it has “for centuries reciprocated by respecting court decisions and orders” (
). This is to forget, for example, the 2011 naming, in defiance of court orders, ofRyan Giggs
andFred Goodwin
, …Police surveillance of journalists in Northern Ireland | Letters
Labour must not duck House of Lords reform this time | Brief letters
So more appointments to the House of Patronage (
Sue Gray given peerage as Labour seeks to rebalance Lords, 20 December
). And more ludicrous titles. A Labour government with a huge majority has a unique opportunity finally to sort out the Lords. All it requires is political will. …Boxing Day footfall down on UK high streets despite discounts
Fewer consumers have made the journey to high streets and shopping centres in search of Boxing Day discounts.
Footfall across UK retailers was down 9.4% as of midday, compared with Boxing Day in 2023, according to data from the retail tech experts MRI Software.
“The decline in Boxing Day activity …
Reform UK claims to be ‘real opposition’ with more members than Tories
Reform UK has said it believes it now has more members than the Conservatives, surpassing 131,000 on Boxing Day.
The party said it had hit the milestone of 131,680, which is the number of members the Conservatives had when Kemi Badenoch won the leadership election in the autumn.
In a …
The first quarter of 21st century wasn’t great for investors. The next needs an AI boost | Nils Pratley
The first quarter of the 21st century is almost up, assuming one regards 31 December 1999 to have been the last day of the last millennium (non-partying pedants insist the date actually fell on the final day of 2000). It is the cue for analysts at Deutsche Bank to remind …
Two women dead after reported stabbing in Milton Keynes
Two women have died and a man and a teenage boy have suffered serious injuries after reports of a stabbing in Milton Keynes on Christmas Day.
A 49-year-old man from Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, was arrested on suspicion of murder and attempted murder and remained in police custody, Thames Valley police …
Dale’s balcony in Kings Cross has become a refuge for injured birds, but the healing goes both ways
At 6.21am, they arrive.
From nowhere, the birds churn up the morning calm – 200 or so flapping wings chaotically pounding the air on the small central Sydney balcony. Just inside the sliding door, Snowy, a little corella whose shrill call sounds like a 1990s telephone, has quietened down: the …