Libby Brooks

Palestine protests go ahead across UK on second anniversary of 7 October March through London and campus sit-ins in Glasgow and Edinburgh proceed despite prime minister’s pleas

Palestine protests go ahead across UK on second anniversary of October 7

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Foreign staff have ‘changed our lives’: Scottish farmers fear for future after changes to skilled worker visas Locals say staff from the Philippines and elsewhere have made life better, and plan to take their case to a government body

Foreign staff have ‘changed our lives’: this is what Labour’s tightening of skilled worker visas will mean in practice for Scottish farmers, report by Joanna Partridge

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Campaigners urged to tell new story on child poverty in Scotland Charities launch practical guide for campaigners, saying ‘the way we talk about it doesn’t always help’

Campaingers need to change the way they talk about child poverty - really interesting practical tokit launched today by @jrf-uk.bsky.social and @savechildrenuk.bsky.social

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Scottish parliament votes in favour of allowing councils to cap rent increases Legislation hailed as ‘historic step for fixing rigged housing market’ but campaigners say bolder action needed

Scottish parliament votes through UK-first rent controls as campigners warn housing bill “gutted” of most progressive measures

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Glasgow University accused of failing student who killed himself on graduation day Ethan Scott Brown was wrongly told he had not earned geography degree despite marks being enough for a 2:1

Glasgow University “failed” a student who killed himself on graduation day - Ethan Brown had been wrongly told he had not done well enough to earn his degree 👇@uofglasgow.bsky.social

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Scottish parliament votes in favour of allowing councils to cap rent increases Legislation hailed as ‘historic step for fixing rigged housing market’ but campaigners say bolder action needed

Scottish parliament votes for UK-first rent caps

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‘He loves splashing around’: UK pools host doggy dips for pets and owners Gourock outdoor pool in Inverclyde drops its humans-only policy on last day of the swim season – part of a trend at lidos around the country

I spent the morning at Gourock outdoor pool for the annual Doggy Dip

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Scottish government rules schools must provide single-sex toilets for children Schools encouraged to also offer access to gender-neutral or other facilities for transgender pupils

Revised transgender schools guidance from Scottish government underlines pupils must use toilets and changing rooms according to biological sex

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UK businesses fear new EHRC guidance on toilets will be ‘unworkable’ Exclusive: Stonewall writes to ministers and warns cost of compliance could be ‘significant’ for struggling companies

UK businesses fear new EHRC guidance on toilets and changing rooms will be ‘unworkable

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This case should have impact across the UK for other families seeking justice: an unprecedented three public bodies admit their failings, human rights breaches and apologise publicly after Allan Marshall’s “avoidable” death in custody

Scottish Prison Service admits human rights law breach over death in custody Police Scotland and Crown Office also make admissions in court relating to death of Allan Marshall in 2015

NEW Scottish Prison Service, Police Scotland and Crown accept they breached Allan Marshall’s right to life and apologise to his family 10 years after his death in custody

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Salmon farmer accused of blocking UK investigations into alleged animal rights breaches Faroese firm Bakkafrost wants to ban campaigner Don Staniford from going within 15 metres of its fish farms

This really matters: using slapp to silence one of our most knowledgeable and dogged salmon farm campaigners

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This is brilliant...

Following up the recommendation of the excellent @siobhansynnot.bsky.social we watched Robert Redford in The Candidate this weekend: what a brilliant, subtle study of the slow erosion of values by the political machine and, aside from half a century of tech advancement, utterly resonant today

Beyond the hot takes and hatchet jobs: I returned to Lochee a month after Musk and Robinson spread misinformation about the Dundee district
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Anti-immigration protesters and counter-protesters clash in Glasgow Event comes a week after the largest far-right event in decades took place in London

Anti-immigration and anti-racist protesters clash in Glasgow

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"What has likewise escaped global attention are the dogged efforts by volunteers, many of them women, to take on Lochee’s undeniable challenges at street level." @libbybrooks.bsky.social goes to Dundee's much-maligned Lochee and finds a different story.

JD Twitch, esteemed Scottish DJ in duo Optimo, dies aged 57 The producer and DJ, real name Keith McIvor, had been diagnosed with an untreatable brain tumour earlier this year

JD Twitch, esteemed Scottish DJ in duo Optimo, dies aged 57
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Meanwhile the flag sellers are coining it

‘We didn’t take Elon Musk’s bait’: community spirit shines on in Dundee’s Lochee despite billionaire’s comments Musk amplified anti-immigrant misinformation about a local arrest, but the Dundee town is focusing on inclusivity

“We didn’t take the bait” - a month after Elon Musk amplified anti-immigration misinformation about Lochee, I returned to Dundee to find out how locals have responded

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Tense scenes in Glasgow city centre right now as hundreds of anti immigration protesters gather at the top of Buchanan Street, with counter protesters from trade unions and other anti racist groups massing further down the precinct

Scottish minister Jamie Hepburn quits after Douglas Ross assault accusation Former Scottish Tory leader alleges Hepburn grabbed him amid row over SNP’s apparent failure to tackle gull attacks

Scottish government minister Jamie Hepburn quits after assault allegation

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Scottish parliament scraps legal verdict of ‘not proven’ Third option for juries thought to be key factor in country’s lower conviction rates for rape and sexual assault abolished

Scottish parliament abolishes centuries-old not proven verdict, as campaigners welcome radical changes to justice system

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Scottish parliament to vote on scrapping legal verdict of not proven Bill includes suite of reforms to improve criminal justice system for survivors of rape and sexual violence

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‘Someone must know this guy’: four-year wedding crasher mystery solved Bride finally tracks down awkward-looking stranger she and husband noticed only when looking through photos

“Someone must know this guy”
Four year wedding crasher mystery solved

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Starmer says he has confidence in Peter Mandelson amid calls to sack him over Epstein ties – UK politics live PM was grilled by Kemi Badenoch on suitability of Mandelson for job as US ambassador

Scotland's FM John Swinney says it's up to UK negotiators to take his proposal for a zero-tariff whisky-bourbon deal over the line after "very serious and very substantial" meeting with Trump

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Keir Starmer will meet Israeli president Isaac Herzog as MPs express ‘grave concern’ at the visit – UK politics live The visit is seen as highly contentious amid the war in Gaza and Israel’s bombing of Qatar in a targeted strike aimed at Hamas officials

Swinney to brief press this afternoon on meeting with Trump about whisky tariffs

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Anti immigration and anti racist demonstrators gathered outside an asylum hotel in Falkirk this afternoon

‘I still want to achieve’: people living with stage 4 cancer embrace Chris Hoy charity ride Inaugural Tour de 4 is tailored to individuals’ physical abilities and aims to challenge assumptions about stage 4 cancer

Wishing all the riders and supporters in Sir Chris Hoy's inaugural Tour de 4 a successful - and relatively dry - day today

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It was written before the march happened