Members of Scotland’s largest NHS union, Unison, have voted to accept the Scottish Government’s pay offer. In a digital ballot where 54.0% of eligible members voted, 78.5% accepted the offer. Another union, GMB Scotland, accepted the pay offer earlier in the week. The pay offer – which was made to 160,000 NHS staff, including nurses, …
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The bible of the priest who smuggled King Charles II out of England during the Civil War is set to fetch thousands at auction. Father John Huddleston’s bible was bought for the modern equivalent of two and a half pence in the 1950s – but it now has an estimated sale price of at least …
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An indefinite strike by thousands of bus drivers will go ahead from Monday after they voted in favour of industrial action in a dispute over pay. More than 3,000 members of Unite employed by National Express in the West Midlands backed walkouts by 71%. Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said: “National Express is an extremely …
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Nicola Sturgeon’s husband Peter Murrell has resigned as the SNP’s chief executive with immediate effect. Reports had suggested members of the SNP’s ruling National Executive Committee (NEC) threatened a vote of no confidence in him. It follows the departure of the SNP media chief Murray Foote, who left on Friday amid a row over the …
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More Passport Office workers have voted to go on strike in a bitter dispute over jobs, pay, pensions and conditions. The Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) announced the results of new ballots for industrial action which all showed big votes in favour. PCS members at the Home Office in Northern Ireland, Maritime and Coastguard …
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The Home Secretary has been given a tour of potential migrant housing in Rwanda as 209 people were confirmed to have made the journey across the Channel on Friday. Suella Braverman embarked on her first full day in the country as Home Secretary on Saturday as she set out to reaffirm her commitment to the …
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Gary Lineker said as he returns to TV screens to present live coverage of the FA Cup quarter-final between Manchester City and Burnley that his support from colleagues has been “hugely gratifying” and “quite beautiful”. Saturday will mark the 62-year-old broadcaster’s first appearance on the BBC since he was told to step back from hosting …
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A fifth person has been detained in connection with the fatal shooting of a 24-year-old man in south-east London. Kai Osibodu, 23, has been charged with one count of murder and two counts of attempted murder following the death of Kai McGinley in Erith. Metropolitan Police officers were called to Pembroke Road in the area …
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Transport ministers must follow the example of their health department colleagues by offering “new money” in union negotiations or passengers will face further rail misery, RMT general secretary Mick Lynch has said. Mr Lynch was speaking as he joined workers on a rainy picket line at central London’s Euston station on Saturday, as a walkout …
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Jon Snow has said he is “at complete ease” with becoming a father again in his 70s. Jon Snow has said he is “at complete ease” with becoming a father again in his 70s. The veteran broadcaster, 75, and his wife, Zimbabwean academic Precious Lunga, welcomed a baby boy via surrogate in March 2021 after …
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