Scottish health secretary will be ‘very important witness’ in trial of former SNP MP Natalie McGarry who is accused of embezzling £25,000 from pro-independence groups, court hears Ex-MP Natalie McGarry, 39, has today denied two charges of embezzlement She is accused of appropriating £21,000 for her use between 2013 and 2015 Glasgow Sheriff Court told Jeane … Read more
Blimey, Del Boy Hancock has struck it lucky again. He’s scored a whole bunch of testing kits off some outfit called Surescreen. A sun lotion firm? Don’t be a plonker, Rodders. Nah, they’re a top-class healthcare firm in Derby. Cushty. And the Health Sec had only gone and scored 20million of the things. Lovely jubbly! … Read more
The future of an entire generation is on the line today. And that is not an exaggeration, writes former Education Secretary Alan Johnson (pictured) The future of an entire generation is on the line today. And that is not an exaggeration. We have been worrying about foreign holidays, football matches and music festivals, and while these … Read more
Prime Minister’s press secretary Allegra Stratton is self-isolating after suspected coronavirus contact Ms Stratton has been in the Downing Street spokesperson role since November Earlier this week she was forced to deny claims PM enjoys a sleep during the day It comes days after it emerged Health Secretary Matt Hancock is also isolating By Tom … Read more
Priti Patel faced fury today after she refused to face MPs over a computer debacle that saw hundreds of thousands of vital records wiped from a police database. The Home Secretary sent her deputy, the Policing Minister Kit Malthouse, to the Commons after a significant number of fingerprint, DNA and arrest history records were lost due … Read more
A hoodie-wearing Matt Hancock was spotted playing rugby with his sons in the park yesterday in the second time he was seen outside this weekend following Boris Johnson’s urgent plea for the public to ‘stay at home’. The Prime Minister released a video on Friday calling on the public to ‘think twice’ before leaving the … Read more
A married senior fire officer is being investigated by his bosses for regularly visiting his former secretary at her home, MailOnline can reveal. Mark Andrews, 49, the £105,000-a-year Deputy Chief Officer at West Sussex Fire & Rescue Service, drove 20 miles to see Anna Colwell, 34, even though she no longer works for him. The … Read more
Solicitor’s secretary, 37, who stole £90,000 from bank account of dementia-hit woman in care home and spent money on her wedding and foreign holidays is jailed for three years Sarah Aikenhead, 37, ‘plundered’ Pamela Sread’s account even after she died Mother-of-one stole more than £137,000 in total from employers in Manchester She was jailed for … Read more
Enter The Enforcer. Priti Patel slowly click-clacked into yesterday’s Downing Street press conference, lower jaw out, forearms bared, camera lens fixed with her best ‘let’s be ‘avin’ ya’ glare. She had come to lay down the law. Too many people were flouting lockdown rules. Or, as she put it, ‘breachin’ regulations’. So once again the … Read more
A Kim Jong Promot-UN!: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is elected ‘general secretary’ of Workers’ Party – the same title held by his father and grandfather, up from mere ‘Chairman’ before Kim Jong Un was given a new title, ‘general secretary’ of the Workers’ Party Appointment is largely symbolic, apparently aimed at bolstering his … Read more