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The available reporting shows that American forces in the North Atlantic, escorted it into the Moray Firth, and that the vessel’s captain, , and an unnamed first officer were removed onto a Coast Guar...
Available reporting and public documents show that decisions about the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (QEUH) campus sit within NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) governance and were scrutinis...
The short answer is: already has a national police service——and a separate -wide "National Police Service" does not supplant or automatically operate across Scotland; UK national bodies such as the or...
The Scottish Hospitals Inquiry has repeatedly heard staff describe sewage smells, leaks and proximity to Shieldhall wastewater treatment works near the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital campus; witn...
The core claim is that the U.S. Secret Service has incurred substantial taxpayer costs to secure former President Trump during golf trips, including contracts for golf cart rentals and portable toilet...
and Scottish courts have approached by foreign military forces cautiously, anchoring decisions in established legal presumptions against extraterritoriality while recognising exceptions where the stat...
is patchy: and publish a time series by religious faith covering 2015–2024 ( / ) , includes religious breakdowns in its recent 2022/23 prison statistics , and academic studies or edited volumes docume...
relies on a mix of commercial enterprise applications, specialised public‑sector platforms, open‑source design tooling, and cloud/network infrastructure as its principal software estate, with clear in...
’s government has adopted explicit policies and practical programmes to promote software (OSS) and open design in the public sector, embedding “coding in the open” and reusable components into its dig...
The Scottish Hospitals Inquiry heard closing submissions in which NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) shifted its position and accepted that, on the balance of probabilities, some patient infection...
The documentary trail offered in the reporting indicates the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital outline business case (OBC) was assessed and approved internally by NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde in Marc...
The choice to locate Glasgow’s new major acute hospital on the Shieldhall/Southern General site — rather than the Cowglen option — emerged from a long programme of appraisal and consultation that bega...
Publicly available Oversight Board minutes for NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde are hosted on gov.scot and list meetings from 2019–2020 but the documents surfaced in the reporting do not, on their face, ...
An independent Scotland’s armed forces, as outlined by Scottish Government planning documents and party materials, would be a conventional three‑service force — land, sea and air — overseen by a Joint...
The Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) found that Dr Tom Gilhooly’s prescribing breached accepted standards of care by using unlicensed or off‑label medicines without adequate consideration...
A targeted increase in taxes on overseas wealthy landowners in Scotland would address clear gaps in the current system—chiefly revenue leakage, concentrated ownership, and lack of local control—but fa...
A fair levelling of Scottish tax between home‑based Scots and immigrant landowners requires shifting tax weight toward land values, closing transactional loopholes, and reforming local property taxati...
The Register of Overseas Entities (ROE) and Scotland’s Register of Persons Holding a Controlled Interest in Land (RCI) together tighten the net on hidden owners by requiring overseas entities and cont...
Several high‑profile Scottish estates have been held through companies incorporated in Jersey or Guernsey (and other Crown dependencies), including Ardfin, Cluny, Eilean Aigas, Dewar and Raeshaw, and ...
Offshore companies incorporated in Jersey and Guernsey can and do own Scottish land because the existing UK and Scottish legal framework permits overseas corporate proprietors, the Channel Islands pro...