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Moray Council's leader is to meet the principal of the University of the Highlands and Islands in the wake of a controversy over comments about ending "vanity courses".

Delta variant blamed for rise in viral load as study suggests fully jabbed could be as capable of passing on virus as non-immunised

BBC News By Luke Sproule image copyrightGetty Images image captionA century after the first devolved parliament, Cardiff, Belfast and Edinburgh have all been given some powers from Westminster Over the past 22 years, devolution to Belfast, Cardiff and Edinburgh has changed the face of the UKs constitution and created both new opportunities and controversies across the political landscape. But long before the modern devolved parliaments were set up in 1999 an experiment began in Northern Ireland...

Coronavirus latest news: Mask-free summer ahead, say government advisers Max Stephens, Gareth Davies, Grace Millimaci © Shutterstock People out in the warm spring sunshine on Regents Park, London  - Shutterstock The public should be able to ditch face masks over the summer as vaccines do the heavy lifting in controlling Covid-19, Government scientific advisers believe. Step four of the Governments road map for England currently states that all legal limits on social contact ...

© Supplied by University of the Highlands and Islands Prof Todd Walker Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up The University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI) marks its 10th anniversary next week by stretching its dispersed multi-campus model to the other side of the world. The institution’s new principal and vice chancellor Professor Todd Walker takes up his post on February 1 – exactly 10 years since un...

The Amazon rainforest has suffered devastating fires in the last two years, leading to the destruction of over 900,000 hectares of vegetation. In addition, humans have whitewashed another 1,202 square km (464 square miles) of forest in Brazil during the first few months of 2020. But as per a new report, the situation would be worse in the coming years and the lungs of this blue planet, Amazon rain forest, will be destroyed by 2064. In the report for Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainab...