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Scottish Natural Heritage said the dune system at Menie, Aberdeenshire, has been damaged through the construction of the resort.

It could be the hottest day of the year. And Glastonbury Festival is set to be the hottest in years.

The study found that 41% of school leaders interviewed had received requests for students to be withdrawn from teaching about one religion.

The women, both journalists who were friends with Ms Carroll, have spoken publicly for the first time.

“Without improved funding this situation will worsen. The two contenders for the leadership of the Conservative Party should be worrying more about schools than about tax cuts.”

The 16-year-old was stabbed to death in north London in an attack by three youths in June 2008.

Diane Abbot has become the latest senior Labour figure to express concerns about the party’s policy on Brexit. The shadow home secretary – one of Jeremy Corbyn’s closest allies – said she was “beginning to worry” whether the party had got its strategy right. Her intervention will add to the pressure on the Labour leader to fully embrace a second EU referendum – something he has so far resisted. It follows a reportedly fractious shadow cabinet meeting on Tuesday when...

“Some companies already start moving their operation to other places in Europe"

The first meeting of a group set up to find backstop alternatives had full and frank discussions, according to one member. Aodhan Connolly, director of the Northern Ireland Retail Consortium, attended the first meeting of the business group set up to examine other options to the Brexit backstop on Wednesday. “I can say that there was very frank discussion and a chance for people to look at the parameters of what alternative arrangements would mean for the Northern Ireland border,”...