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As the dust settled on last month’s election there was a slight reprise of the turbulence of the Scottish Parliament inquiries from earlier in the year when James Wolffe announced he was to step down as Lord Advocate.   At that time, baseless allegations flew around of the abuse of power by the Crown Office – the criminal prosecutor headed by the Lord Advocate – with Alex Salmond, the former First Minister, naming Wolffe as an individual who should resign. It was alleged that hold...

HMS FORTH travels to Tristan da Cunha to deliver coronavirus vaccines. MOD Crown Copyright. For the first time, the Royal Navy assisted the RAF and Strategic Command in a 6-day operation this month to the isolated South Atlantic island community. An RAF Voyager aircraft made the 8,000 mile trip from RAF Brize Norton to the Falkland Islands, via Dakar in Senegal to refuel, before HMS Forth sailed the 2,000 mile voyage to Tristan da Cunha. Delivered on behalf of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Deve...

Royal Navy and RAF combine efforts to deliver vaccines to world’s most remote Overseas Territory UK Armed Forces have transported coronavirus vaccines to the Overseas Territory of Tristan da Cunha – the most remote inhabited island in the world. From: HMS FORTH travels to Tristan da Cunha to deliver coronavirus vaccines. MOD Crown Copyright. For the first time, the Royal Navy assisted the RAF and Strategic Command in a 6-day operation this month to the isolated South Atlantic is...

HMS FORTH travels to Tristan da Cunha to deliver coronavirus vaccines. MOD Crown Copyright. For the first time, the Royal Navy assisted the RAF and Strategic Command in a 6-day operation this month to the isolated South Atlantic island community. An RAF Voyager aircraft made the 8,000 mile trip from RAF Brize Norton to the Falkland Islands, via Dakar in Senegal to refuel, before HMS Forth sailed the 2,000 mile voyage to Tristan da Cunha. Delivered on behalf of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Deve...

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SNP MP Kenny MacAskill has asked if the police are to speak to David Davis over claims he made in the Commons last night suggesting "a criminal conspiracy" against Alex Salmond. Davis, the former Brexit secretary, used parliamentary privilege to make public material he said was handed to him by “an anonymous whistleblower”. He said the information given to him included a download of text messages from the telephone of Sue Ruddick, the chief operating officer of the SNP, and was held by...

Scotland’s chief constable warned against the Scottish Government going public about their investigation of Alex Salmond, a witness statement released by the Crown Office has confirmed. A Police Scotland detective chief superintendent said they and the chief constable, Iain Livingstone, “both voiced our concerns” about the Government’s plan to announce there were allegations of sexual harassment by the former first minster before police had investigated the claims. The extract of the wi...

Scotlands chief constable warned against the Scottish Government going public about its investigation of Alex Salmond, a newly-released statement has revealed.