Scotland Editor for @BBCNews. Formerly North America Correspondent in Los Angeles and Chief News Correspondent for @BBCScotNine.
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I’m saying you may have misheard or misremembered. I said, over pictures of a woman stitching a fishing net, the deal had been “stitched together” a perfectly reasonable phrase without the negative connotations of “stitch up”. Maybe that was it? youtu.be/iMLlUWPMoog
FACTS — 10,481 recorded drugs deaths in Scotland in 10 years. Details of the “trend” (up, up, up, up, up, up, up, fractionally down, down, up) are included in my piece. (He blocked me hence screenshot).
Billions at stake in courtroom battle over North Sea oil and gas as climate campaigners challenge the UK government’s consent for the Rosebank and Jackdaw fields bbc.com/news/articles/ce89er… 📷 @JeffJMitch @GettyImages
Final general election result
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Lab 412 (+211)
Con 121 (-251)
LD 72 (+64)
SNP 9 (-39)
SF 7 (-)
Ind 6 (+6)
Reform UK 5 (+5)
DUP 5 (-3)
Green 4 (+3)
Plaid Cymru 4 (+2)
SDLP 2 (-)
Alliance 1 (-)
UUP 1 (+1)
TUV 1 (+1)
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Lab 37 (+36)
SNP 9 (-39)
LD 6 (+4)
Con 5 (-1)
This is the first page of the SNP manifesto for this general election. Its leader John Swinney said if his party won the most seats in Scotland that would amount to a mandate for negotiations with Westminster on a second independence referendum…
