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Michael Russell, the party’s president, said he expected the SNP leadership election to be a ‘contested election’.

The 82-year-old was awarded an honorary degree by the university.

People attending the rallies lit candles and held placards.

Arsenal Gaygooners was created on February 16 2013.

Elijah Clark, of Gloucester Avenue, Chelmsford, has been charged with the murder of 16-year-old Andy Wood.

The Metropolitan Police said a 20-year-old man was arrested on Wednesday in connection with the incident.

Former Labour leader Mr Corbyn currently sits as an independent MP.

Ms Bulley was last seen on January 27 at 9.10am taking her usual route with her springer spaniel Willow, alongside the River Wyre.

Michael D Higgins’ comments came after Taoiseach Leo Varadkar paid tribute to Ms Sturgeon as a ‘friend of Ireland’.

The Prime Minister and the billionaire philanthropist met those behind the Cleantech for UK coalition in central London.

Melusi Madaweni faces an automatic life term when he is sentenced next week.

Thanet District Council confirmed it removed the real-life chest freezer incorporated into the wall painting ‘on the grounds of safety’ on Tuesday.

The family of Emma and Lettie Pattison said that they took comfort in the pair remaining united.

One of the former Labour leader’s closest allies said he is ‘anti-EU’, backing up a suspicion many critics have long held.

Leo Varadkar paid tribute to the outgoing Scottish first minister in comments to the Dail parliament in Dublin.

UN officials have warned the number of people killed could exceed 50,000.

Sinn Fein’s Michelle O’Neill said the DUP had to stop holding people in Northern Ireland ‘to ransom’.

Joseph Sneddon, 37, died in April 2022 at the Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy, Fife.

The Assembly Commission granted permission for the installation of the commemorative stone this week following a row around it in 2021.

The judge said their behaviour was ‘disgraceful and ridiculous’.