Social exclusion: boarded-up homes in Liverpool, UK.
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View from an expert in criminal justice – who also lives in one of the UK's most deprived areas.
Lynx were driven to extinction in the UK during the Medieval period.
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Computer modelling has confirmed that Scotland's West coast could support and sustain a reintroduced lynx population.
Safe and sound?
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Scotland is in the late stages of deciding whether to become the first country in UK to outlaw all corporal punishment against children.
Alarm call.
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While everyone frets about the fate of big corporates, the little ones are growing agitated.
Outside the Houses of Parliament in London on March 14, 2019.
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Three scholars react to the spectacle, finger-pointing and long-term harms of the stalemate in British Parliament.
The family that votes together remains together?
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Westminster has consistently disregarded the concerns of the devolved administrations over Brexit.
I’ll take the high road…
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The answer to life, the universe and everything is not 42, but 282.
Bannockburn’s Battle Room.
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Want to travel to 1314 and see Robert the Bruce slaying an English knight? Why step this way, madam.
Grave injustice.
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Guess how much the average funeral now costs. Hint: it's more than most people pay for a second hand car.
Red flag hoisted in Glasgow’s main square.
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This was no high watermark of British communism; just a key milestone in the struggle for better working conditions.
Sturge overkill?
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As the Brexit clock ticks down and the Alex Salmond crisis grows, the stakes have never been higher for his SNP successor.
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Acidic seawater conditions are interfering with the ability of shellfish to produce strong, resilient shells, and it's happening all over the world.
Saoirse Ronan plays the Scottish queen.
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The doomed Scottish monarch has divided opinion ever since the days when she was forced off the throne.
Lina Fadel and her son in Edinburgh. The Syrian academic first came to the UK as a student.
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Achieving a genuine sense of belonging in a new country takes a lot more than a naturalisation certificate.
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The ongoing Brexit negotiations have provided no certainty or clarity to the industry.
High road, low road.
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Brexit has shown the constitutional arrangements around devolution for what they are.
The crisis enveloping the British government started when Britons voted “yes” to leaving the European Union in 2016.
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As England agonises over Brexit, divisions have emerged in other parts of the UK, especially in Northern Ireland and independent-minded Scotland.
Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon at Glasgow Pride, 2018.
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By changing the curriculum, Scotland acknowledges that society has always been diverse – and that will help more young people feel accepted.
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Scotland tends to take a more progressive approach to inequality, but how is it actually faring compared to the rest of the UK?
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A new law means the Shetland Isles must now be placed in their true location – but mapping experts aren't entirely convinced.