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Mike Farrar, who was made permanent secretary in April, said he is optimistic about the future for the health service in the region.

Police investigating the disappearance of Cole Cooper said he was last seen in the Falkirk area on May 7.

The building society suggested that customers were switching from rival banks in order to make use of its branch network.

The 53-year-old man, from West Derby, Liverpool, remained in custody on Wednesday.

The Government has set out proposals to cut red tape and for planning decisions to be shifted away from councillors and towards expert officers.

The Government has committed to a two-year inquiry into the attacks by Valdo Calocane.

Baroness Dido Harding was head of the NHS Test and Trace programme during the crisis.

Jamaal Darbasie, 27, and George Manton, 19, both from Harlow in Essex, were stopped at Glasgow Airport in March 2024.

Sir Mark Rowley said that on Tuesday the force was searching for the teenager who had been bailed by a court.

Earl Spencer said he was ‘stunned’ to learn that a farmhouse was burned down on the Althorp Estate.

Health Minister Mike Nesbitt described finalising financial plans that will be ‘unprecedented’ and ‘painful’.

Hamit Coskun is on trial at Westminster Magistrates’ Court.

A delegation of 60 Ukrainian business and civic leaders gathered in Edinburgh’s city chambers for a special event.

Mother of Minnie Rae Dunn described allowing her daughter on to the balcony as the ‘biggest mistake of my life’.

An average of 630 hours of sunshine were clocked up across the country between March 1 and May 27.

The Deputy First Minister said the Scottish Government has ‘limited’ powers over the economy.

An inquest was held at Avon Coroners’ Court, near Bristol, on Wednesday.

The former president of Sinn Fein is suing the BBC over a claim that he sanctioned the killing of informer Denis Donaldson in 2006.

The University of Cambridge has published the final list of candidates for the election of the institution’s formal and ceremonial head.

Regulator Ofwat said Thames had ‘let down its customers and failed to protect the environment’ as it issued the water industry’s biggest ever fine.