Catriona Stewart

1 day ago | scotsman.com | Catriona Stewart

The images were as striking as they were familiar: a small dingy in a large sea, so crammed with people that some sat astride the edges, their feet dangling mere inches above the water. The headlines were more familiar still, full of overhyped shock and horror about the issue of small-boat landings on UK shores bringing unwanted immigrants from God knows where to do who knows what. The weekend saw the highest number of such boats arrive in England so far this year.

1 week ago | thetimes.com | Catriona Stewart

2 weeks ago | cbc.ca | Jonathon Gatehouse |Albert Leung |Catriona Stewart

Canada·NewA Scottish court hearing has revealed new details about the three men who are facing charges in the 2023 death of an Owen Sound, Ont., restaurateur, Sharif Rahman, and the measures they allegedly took to escape police. Three men accused said to be part of Irish Traveller community in EnglandSharif Rahman, seen here in this undated Facebook photo, died in a London, Ont., hospital in August 2023, following a dispute over an unpaid bill at his restaurant in Owen Sound, Ont.

2 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Catriona Stewart

2 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Catriona Stewart

Politicians and campaigners have called on the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) and Angela Constance, the justice secretary, to "abide by both the law and common sense" and remove biological males from the female prison estate. Transgender women, including those sentenced for murder, torture, sexual offences and assault, have been housed in the female prison estate since at least 2010.