EU leaders are facing a fresh legal complaint over widespread destructive fishing practices like bottom trawling in marine protected areas (MPAs). The lawyers behind it say that continuing to permit ...

A number of improvements must be made in order to address “systemic problems” created following reform of Scotland’s police and fire services, according to a committee of MSPs. On Monday, Holyrood’s ...

Police Scotland is the second largest force in the UK, with 17,000 officers Improvements are needed to address "systemic problems" created when Scotland's police and fire services became national ...

CRESSIDA DICK is not the most wilfully obdurate of Metropolitan Police commissioners in living memory, and neither is she the most resistant to the manifestly obvious facts of life as it is lived on ...

Why do fire doors keep failing tests? @PeteApps looks at the missed warnings and asks whether the issue will become a crisis “There is no evidence,” said Sajid Javid, then communities secretary, told ...

Investigations by the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman are increasingly unearthing “systemic problems rather than one-off mistakes”, while record numbers of complaints are being upheld. The ...

Police Scotland is the second largest force in the UK, with 17,000 officers Improvements are needed to address "systemic problems" created when Scotland's police and fire services became national ...