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Carmarthenshire County Council failed to secure an injunction against proposals to place migrants at a Llanelli hotel.

The RSPB is offering a £5,000 reward for information about the incident concerning a bird released by Micheal Martin in the Republic last year.

SNP MP Mhairi Black announced that she would be standing down at the next election.

Deborah Wilde, 68, Simon Milner-Edwards, 66, and William Ward, 66, have been bailed and will appear in court on August 7.

An asylum seeker said he was assaulted by smugglers and facing a threat of ‘violence and death’ to pilot a dinghy to the UK.

Godfrey Madondo, 20, killed Jeremiah Sewell, 19, following a ‘chance meeting’ in Beckenham Place Park in south London last July.

Sir Jonathan Cohen said he had been told several times that Lady Hiroko Barclay was getting money and described the situation as a ‘charade’

All broadcasters are excluded from expressing opinions on matters of ‘political and industrial controversy’ under current rules.

A quirk of how some health professionals are employed could mean they are ineligible for the payment worth at least £1,250.

The offer amounts to a 12.4% over the next year at a cost of more than £61 million to the Scottish Government.

The incident happened at an U-16s GAA match in Cookstown on Thursday.

Kevin Bakhurst, an experienced media executive, has pledged to ‘restore trust’ in the national broadcaster.

Jamie Barrow set fire to the home of Fatoumatta Hydara, 28, and her daughters Fatimah and Naeemah Drammeh, aged three and one, last November.

Two of the victims, teenage students Grace O’Malley-Kumar and Barnaby Webber, also suffered wounds to the abdomen, Nottingham’s senior coroner said.

Connor Chapman, 23, was found guilty following a trial at Liverpool Crown Court of the murder of Elle Edwards.

The charges centre around the placing of a claim of responsibility by the New IRA for the attempted murder of Detective Chief Inspector John Caldwell.

A heat-health alert is also in place for the weekend in large parts of England.

In his presidential address to the church’s parliament the Archbishop of York, Stephen Cottrell, called for unity and more focus on the word ‘our’.

Scottish Labour MSP Monica Lennon made the claims after criticising her party’s decision not to commit to scrapping the two-child benefit cap.

Scottish drugs minister Elena Whitham said ‘criminalisation increases the harms people experience. Criminalisation kills’.