Professor Gayle McPherson, Director of the Centre for Culture, Sport and Events at UWS said there could be a 'pared back opening and closing ceremony, hosted somewhere like The Hydro.'

Labour lead at 26 points in latest YouGov poll for The Times

CON 19 (-1)
LAB 45 (+2)
LIB DEM 8 (=)
REF UK 15 (-1)
GRN 7 (-1)

Fieldwork 10 - 11 April

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BREAKING: More than 7,000 complaints made under new hate crime laws in first week

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Police Scotland received 7,152 complaints under Scotland’s new hate crime law in the first week of operation.

There were 240 hate crimes and 30 non-crime hate incidents recorded in that time.

Random bottle of House of Commons whisky signed by ex-Midlothian Labour MP David Hamilton in my Glasgow Southside barber.

Situation 'getting worse instead of better'. Another grim set of A&E stats - these statistics would have been unthinkable a few years ago

'Deplorable' A&E waits see one in 20 spending more than 12 hours in emergency units heraldscotland.com/news/24240833.…
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#Breaking Nobel Prize-winning physicist Professor Peter Higgs – for whom the subatomic particle the Higgs boson was named – has died aged 94, the University of Edinburgh said

Crude price surge could fuel inflation and calls for windfall tax hike heraldscotland.com/news/24242336.…

Scottish Government now explicitly saying wood burning stoves CAN be installed in new homes 'to provide emergency heating, where a need can be justified.'

Scottish Government bans wood burning stoves in new builds

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'Deplorable' A&E waits see one in 20 spending more than 12 hours in emergency units

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Glen Rosa, one of Scotland’s two late and over budget ferries, will take to the water for the first time in Port Glasgow this afternoon.

Former Labour first minister Lord McConnell says the hate crime act is going to “completely distract” Police Scotland from other areas of policing.

Says aspects of the law need to be reviewed and ministers need to be clearer about what they expect of police #bbcgms

The Green Party candidate who pulled out of the Tees Valley mayoral election has told me she did it because she doesn't want to split the progressive vote and allow Ben Houchen to win.
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NEW: Understand that William Wragg has stepped down as chair of PACAC Committee and as vice chairman of the Tory backbench 1922 committee