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Law firm DLA Piper has set up a £150 million funding pot and joined the litigation financing market. The firm has struck a deal with a currently unnamed funder to create a fund which will be aimed at clients that want to shift the costs of litigation and arbitration off their balance sheets, T

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Trowels will be left in 90 lay-bys in parts of the Highlands for people who desperately need the toilet to dig a hole and deposit their waste. Lochbroom Community Council Chairman Topher Dawson said the trowels would be an "emergency, last resort" for people who cannot access toilets.

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Social distancing guidelines were not always followed at a prison in which six inmates have tested positive for coronavirus. HM Inspectorate of Prisons for Scotland found that staff at HMP Kilmarnock occasionally failed to wear personal protective equipment when they were unable to observe the two-m

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Scottish animal welfare campaigns charity OneKind has called for an end to driven grouse shooting today, the Glorious Twelfth – the first day of the grouse shooting season. Large areas of upland Scotland are used for driven grouse shooting, with the land being managed to maximise the number of

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Janis McDonald, chief officer at deafscotland, highlights the importance of inclusive communication – sharing information in a way that everybody can understand. Inclusive communication is short on money, focus and understanding with a distance to go to meet the needs of the one million p

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