An investigation has been launched by a Glasgow hospital after an error led to the wrong body being cremated. The mistaken release of the body by the hospital to the undertakers was only discovered after the funeral service and the cremation had taken place. The error also meant another family were prevented from having their […]
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Covid-19 inquiry live: Rishi Sunak faces questions on goverment’s pandemic response | Covid inquiry
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Sunak says there was not a ‘toolkit’ to deal with the pandemic Sunak, who had been appointed chief secretary to the Treasury in July 2019, admitted he did not have a “huge amount of time in that context” when appointed chancellor. […]
Former children’s commissioner Baroness Anne Longfield to lead grooming gangs inquiry
A former children’s commissioner will chair the government’s inquiry into grooming gangs. Baroness Anne Longfield will lead the inquiry, which was derailed in October when four women resigned from its survivors panel and two leading candidates to chair the investigation pulled out. Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said Baroness Longfield had “devoted her life to children’s […]
Murder inquiry launched after child and woman die in fire
RTÉ An Garda Síochána (the Irish police service) say the fire occurred at a house in Edenderry, County Offaly Gardaí (Irish police) have launched a murder investigation after a four-year-old boy and a 60-year-old woman died in a fire in County Offaly. The fire occurred at a house in Castleview Park, Edenderry, at 19:45 local […]
DOJ won’t say what it advised Noem amid contempt inquiry over El Salvador deportations
Department of Justice officials, citing privilege, did not disclose details on the legal advice given to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem about the decision to continue the deportation of more than 100 Venezuelans to El Salvador in March. The declarations filed in court Friday are a response to a contempt inquiry initiated by U.S. District Court […]
Democrat Eric Swalwell faces federal criminal inquiry for alleged mortgage fraud | US politics
The Democratic congressman Eric Swalwell is the latest target of Trump’s retribution campaign against his critics, the congressman confirmed on Thursday. NBC News reports that Swalwell is facing a federal criminal investigation for alleged mortgage fraud, just as three other Democratic officials have faced in recent months. The outlet says the director of the Federal […]
Undercover police officer fabricated gun plot by animal rights activists, his managers tell inquiry | Undercover police and policing
Managers of an undercover police officer believed he had concocted a plot in which animal rights activists purportedly sought to obtain a gun to inflict a revenge attack on a political opponent, the spycops public inquiry has heard. The officer, James Thomson, claimed he had uncovered the plot while he infiltrated animal rights groups. But […]