Plan C could mean return to venue ‘check in’ with the NHS Covid app and seated table service

Angela Rayner has asked Lord Geidt to inspect the ‘inconsistencies’ between his report on the refit and a damning ruling by the Electoral Commission.

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Finance Minister Conor Murphy wants the endorsement of the wider Executive for his draft spending plan before starting a public consultation.

Before his career in politics, Jack Doyle was a political journalist at the Daily Mail newspaper.

‘Tempting though it might be for the parliamentary defeat on the government that would not be the right thing to do in terms of public health’

Polls show the Conservative’s lowest backing since Boris Johnson has been Prime Minister

What do the latest set of revelations to have come out of Downing Street mean for the government and for Boris Johnson more specifically ?

Economic growth slowed from 0.6% in September to 0.1% in October, the Office for National Statistics said.

A post-mortem examination will be carried out.

A 3km protection zone has been put around the premises in Dumfries and Galloway.

‘The prime minister is in breach of both the ministerial code and the seven principles of public life’

The new regulations will be put to a debate and vote in the Commons next week.

There have been concerns around the rights of residents throughout the pandemic.

Scientists find clear link between the mutilations and the presence of fox DNA on the dead cats

The four young, gay men were drugged and killed by date-rape predator Stephen Port between 2014 and 2015.

The Prime Minister’s woes, with a brief happy break for a birth, lead the front pages on Friday.

Boris Johnson urged to ‘get a grip’ on matters amid new criticism.

Investigation had been ordered into lesions found in post-mortem probe

Investigation continues into crash of F-35B fighter which plunged into sea just after it took off from Queen Elizabeth

Communities department ‘does not have detailed plan’ for regulation, says National Audit Office

Otter’s Carol and Ernie had their habitat “spruced up” with brightly coloured festive baubles.

What is Simon Case investigating and what other claims have been made?

Tensions are likely to run high as Downing Street says it does not recognise an EU deadline of December 10.

Boris Johnson urged by Tory and Labour MPs to accept shortcut amid packed parliamentary timetable

‘Totally unacceptable’: Mandatory vaccination would split the party, warns Conservative MP

Dr Nick Phin, director at Public Health Scotland, said early evidence suggests the new Covid variant is much more transmissible.

Report comes as inquiry into Downing Street gatherings widened

Labour’s deputy leader Angela Rayner says more detail about alleged Christmas gatherings has emerged from the media than the Cabinet Office.

Local authorities will have ‘complete flexibility’ to set council tax rates – raising fears households could be hit hard.

Masks are required on public transport and in shops, and under Plan B will become compulsory in most public indoor venues from Friday.

Exclusive: Draft levelling up white paper, seen by ‘The Independent’, reveals key details of government’s flagship policy

Gisela Stuart picked to oversee political impartiality in civil service

‘I saw the knife and the voice in my head had shouted: ‘Attack, attack’,’ says defendant

The Scottish Fiscal Commission published a report at the same time as the Scottish Budget.

The comedian made the comments at an initiative which focuses on building cross-border relationships.

A Christmas Eve service will include the camels making their way up and down the Cathedral aisles in a creative re-imagining of the Nativity.

Public Health Scotland ‘strongly urges’ public to ditch festive plans

Nia Fowler, 36, was described by family and friends as the ‘gentlest person’.

Scottish Greens co-leader Patrick Harvie said the package showed his party was ‘working for Scotland’.

Business organisations have been responding to Kate Forbes’ Scottish Budget.

Neil Shastri-Hurst has been parachuted in from Birmingham and is ‘essentially hiding away’

The NASUWT said immediate measures were needed to tackle real-terms cuts to teachers’ salaries.

Abedi had no role model for life in Britain as his family showed ‘scant regard’ for UK laws, expert says.

The First Minister has written to Boris Johnson to urge him to temporarily waive intellectual property rights for coronavirus jabs.

Officially integrated schools aim to attract at least 30% of pupils from the minority tradition within the establishment’s enrolment.

Trade unions and opposition parties have called for minimum wage of up to £15 per hour.

The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh said there were ‘chronic workforce shortages’ that need to be addressed.

The Scottish Finance Secretary unveiled her draft tax and spending plans to MSPs at Holyrood.

Around four in five local areas (83%) have recorded a week-on-week rise in rates.

Coco Rose Bradford died in July 2017 in the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children.

Masks are required on public transport and in shops, and under Plan B will become compulsory in most public indoor venues from Friday.

New plan B exemption – designed for places of worship – is also applicable to other settings

UK citizens who lose a loved one overseas in difficult circumstances can face a lack of support from the Foreign Office, ministers have been told.

Everyone aged over 18 will be offered a booster jab by the end of January.

The 50-year-old is wanted in the US on charges of conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defence information following WikiLeaks publications.

Boris Johnson defended democracy in remarks to a summit hosted by Joe Biden.

Education union says health and social care’s warning is ‘very worrying’

An F35B Lightning jet crashed into the Mediterranean after tumbling off the edge of HMS Queen Elizabeth’s flight deck last month.

Professor John Edmunds said he would be very surprised if updated vaccines to tackle variants were not needed.

Downing Street says the Friday cut-off date as set out by the EU is ‘not one we’re working to’.

Michael Fabricant said he felt the fact he was a ‘character’ had made him more likely to be elected.

These patients tend to be the least likely to develop an antibody response following vaccination.

A circle of six trees are to be planted in memory of the child, who was killed by his stepmother and father.

Chinese Communist Party responsible for ‘deliberate, systematic and concerted policy’ of lowering Uyghur birth rates, says panel

The government hopes that the move will reduce pressure on the NHS this winter

Jake Davison killed his mother, Maxine Davison, after a row and then shot dead four others in a 12-minute attack in Plymouth in August.

It is being led by academics at the Queen’s University Belfast.

The pair had acted against the publisher of The Sun over alleged unlawful information gathering.

Labour urged the Government to ‘take charge’ after thousands of homes in the north of England were left without power for more than a week.

‘If required, the investigation will establish whether individual disciplinary action is warranted’

Senior officers have warned the public ‘not to let their guard slip during the festive period’.

The 23-year-old drowned last year after he was chased by police on a dark towpath — but ‘critical’ evidence was lost

NHS Lothian has apologised for repeated failings in its paediatric audiology services over a nine-year period.

Micheal Martin was speaking at an event setting out the next stages of the Shared Island initiative, a year on from its launch.

Changes reflect ‘increased targeting of young suspected right-wing terrorists operating online’

Environmentalists say event marks ‘historic’ day in transition away from fossil fuels

Chancellor Rishi Sunak and foreign secretary Liz Truss among the runners and riders

The peer’s comments will be widely seen as directed at the Prime Minister following his chaotic speech to the CBI.

Labour MP Peter Dowd talked about his experience as Government plans were set out for putting victims ‘at the heart of the criminal justice system’.

‘I think silence speaks volumes’, says Conservative who repeatedly refuses to back PM

The proposal ‘undermined the Good Friday Agreement and the Common Travel Area’, the Irish parliament was told.

More than 2 million people have received a third or booster dose.

Thirty-eight premises, including farms and bird sanctuaries, are currently infected with the disease

It comes after claims First Minister Mark Drakeford called for a full lockdown over Christmas.

The GP declined to help the police because he said he couldn’t comment on the ‘personality of a patient’

‘Laws around the reporting and recording of donations were not followed’, Electoral Commission finds

The Scottish Labour leader pressed First Minister Nicola Sturgeon over problems at the flagship Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow.

The move, designed to give victims greater confidence to come forward, were included in the Government’s rape review.

The group’s debut album, The Age Of Consent, was seen as a landmark release for the gay community.

‘It was not my choice to be standing here, I wanted to go to trial’

Officials confirmed that an exemption which allows people to remove their face coverings to sing would apply in all settings.

He visited the Holy Trinity Brompton church in South Kensington, west London, on Thursday.

The head of DS Smith said raw materials, wage increases and energy costs have all hit but the business could benefit from another online boom.

Daughter is couple’s second child together – and prime minister’s seventh