Sarah Ward

Jan 15, 2025 | standard.co.uk | Sarah Ward

Get our award-winning daily news email featuring exclusive stories, opinion and expert analysisI would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice. A legal challenge to the decision to scrap universal winter fuel payments for pensioners has heard that the Scottish Government’s decision was a “direct consequence” of UK Government counterparts.

Jan 14, 2025 | the-independent.com | Simon Calder |Sarah Ward

Ian Murray has been invited by the Committee to give evidence on the UK Government’s involvement in the City Region and Growth Deals programme. Sarah WardFrom reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing.

Jan 7, 2025 | the-independent.com | Sarah Ward

Iain Owens is due to be sentenced with six co-accused later this month. Sarah WardA leading UK forensic psychologist graded a man convicted of being part of a child abuse ring “medium risk”, a court has heard. Iain Owens was found guilty in 2023 of being part of a paedophile ring which abused three children in a Glasgow drugs den where heroin and cocaine were used, following a trial which heard allegations of Satanic rituals and dog killing.

Mar 12, 2024 | buxtonfestival.co.uk | Gerry Northam |Sarah Ward |David Reynolds |Julian Glover

Ruskin Park: Sylvia, Me and the BBCFormer BBC correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones knew he was the child of a brief love affair between two unmarried BBC employees. But until his mother died and he found a previously unknown file labelled ‘For Rory’ he had no idea of their beginnings or ending. This is a compelling account of a relationship between two colleagues (two romantics) and the restrictive forces of post-war respectability and prejudice that ended it.

Jan 8, 2024 | standard.co.uk | Sarah Ward

The child abuse ring members will be sentenced at the High Court in Glasgow (Jane Barlow/PA)PA WireSeven people convicted of being part of a Scottish child abuse ring which committed crimes of “extraordinary depravity” are facing possible life sentences. The two women and five men were all convicted of gang raping a child, and abusing other children.