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Battle for the West End after London mayor Sadiq Khan gets powers to approve late-night drinking and al fresco dining

Council says it only refuses licences if there are concerns over crime or anti-social behaviour

Evening Standard

Westminster Labour councillor quits party and joins Tories blaming 'Sadiq Khan vanity projects'

Paul Fisher, who was elected a Labour councillor in the West End in 2022, said: ‘Sadiq Khan has failed London’

Evening Standard

Four Greenpeace activists arrested after climbing Foreign Office building

The protesters unfurled a banner as they suspended themselves from columns on the King Charles Street Archway in Westminster.

Evening Standard

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‘We introduced avocado to the high street!’ How Pret conquered London – and began eyeing the rest of the world

The sandwich chain now has 274 branches in the capital. How did it grow so huge – and can anything stop it getting even bigger?

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Welsh public services face £65m black hole due to tax hike, Senedd hears

Mark Drakeford, the Welsh Finance Secretary, said Rachel Reeves is ‘wrong’ to use the Barnett formula to distribute funding for public services.

Evening Standard

Oxford Street would be 'extremely unpleasant' if cyclists were allowed in pedestrianised area - Sadiq Khan's cycling tsar

But bikes could be allowed in the street ‘out of hours’, says TfL director

Evening Standard

Support for Labour plunges in new Westminster poll in blow to Keir Starmer

SUPPORT for Labour has plunged to new depths according to a new Westminster poll ...

The National (Scotland)

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Labour could lift 700,000 children out of poverty by following SNP policy – report

THE UK Government could cut child poverty in the UK by a sixth if it was to take the same approach as the Scottish Government, according to a new…

The National (Scotland)

SNP Westminster leader’s path clears for Holyrood bid

Mr Flynn is seeking the Aberdeen South and North Kincardine seat at Holyrood.

Evening Standard

Town hall rich list: Nearly 100 council employees earn more than prime minister in London

Westminster City Council tops a ‘Town Hall Rich List’ revealed on the same day as council tax goes up across the country

Evening Standard

SNP selection drama shows former MPs won't just breeze into Holyrood

The race to secure a place on the Holyrood ballot paper for the SNP is heating up

The National (Scotland)

Loud buskers playing songs on loop across Leicester Square is 'psychological torture', says judge

Westminster City Council has failed to tackle noise nuisance from buskers in Leicester Square

Evening Standard

Quakers condemn Met Police over ‘aggressive’ arrests at ‘shut down London’ protest meeting

More than 30 officers made the arrests at a welcome talk held in Westminster

Evening Standard

Westminster 'respect' for Holyrood questioned amid 'silence' on benefit cuts

A Scottish minister has said the so-called "respect agenda" between Holyrood and Westminster "is not working" as she criticised…

The National (Scotland)

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Quakers condemn Met Police raid as six arrested in Westminster meeting house

Youth Demand said their members were planning non-violent protests in April when they were arrested in a Quaker meeting house

The National (Scotland)

Christina McKelvie on why Winnie Ewing was her inspiration from archived interview

This Q&A session with MSP Christina McKelvie, whose death was announced on Thursday, first appeared in the August 2017 issue of iScot magazine…

The National (Scotland)

Westminster will not ignore electoral mandate for independence claims Kenny MacAskill

ALBA leader Kenny MacAskill has insisted Westminster will not ignore an electoral mandate for independence.

The Independent UK

Farage brands Tories ‘stuffy’ and ‘boring’ as he talks up Reform vote chances

Mr Farage told journalists in Westminster he found the House of Commons ‘very odd’, and claimed the European Parliament had been ‘better organised’.

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SNP 'swimming against UK's rising tide of child poverty', John Swinney says

JOHN Swinney has said the SNP is “swimming against a tide of rising poverty” caused in Westminster ....

Evening Standard

Sadiq Khan intervenes after council refuses 20-storey student block as mayor pushes to meet London housing targets

Mayor takes control of planning application after councillors concluded it would harm neighbours’ daylight levels and create a ‘sense of enclosure’

Evening Standard

Holyrood block grant to be cut as a result of Reeves’s welfare changes – Robison

The Scottish Finance Secretary addressed MSPs after the Chancellor’s spring statement on Wednesday.

Evening Standard

NHS will become national health and assisted suicide service, says MP

Danny Kruger said the NHS would, if the Bill being considered passes into law, become the ‘national health and assisted suicide service’.

The National (Scotland)

Labour urged to U-turn as hiked Scotch whisky tax 'loses Treasury £300m'

LABOUR have been urged to end the UK’s “damaging” tax policies on Scottish whisky – with an SNP MP saying Westminster has the industry…

The National (Scotland)

'Finest clown in Westminster's circus': Why The National will miss Douglas Ross

WE here at The National would like to pay tribute to one of the finest clowns that ever passed through the Westminster circus.

The Independent UK

Ex-Scottish Tory leader eyes Westminster return as he prepares to leave Holyrood

Douglas Ross has confirmed he will not stand in the 2026 Scottish Parliament election.

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