Nicola Sturgeon says the one-off cash payment is to thank health staff for their "extraordinary service".

Boris Johnson will publish data behind England's new tiers later in a bid to win over Tory rebels.

A Jewish Labour member said he felt the atmosphere in the meeting was so "hostile" he had to leave.

Deputy First Minister John Swinney says if the SNP retains power, it would fund free breakfasts and lunches.

John Swinney told the SNP conference that the scheme would also run in the school holidays.

The Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry hears the then-first minister and other government figures were against it being set up.

Suffolk is being put into a tougher set of Covid-19 restrictions in December.

Opposition legislators hurled the intestines in a bitter dispute over the easing of US pork imports.

Chancellor Rishi Sunak defends pay freeze on at least 1.3 million public sector workers.

An increase in the money coming to Scotland but uncertainty about costs and pay awards.

Police discovered the two men after forcing their way into a house, an inquest is told.

Chancellor Rishi Sunak is preparing to unveil his spending review before the Commons.

The treatment of people who came to the UK from the Caribbean added to historic injustices, a report says.

The Telecommunications Security Bill bans the involvement of Huawei in the UK's 5G mobile network.

Boris Johnson says he was only criticising the SNP's record when he called Holyrood a "disaster".

The prime minister says that because he criticised the performance of devolution does not mean he opposes it.

But Downing Street insists the conclusions of Sir Alex Allan's investigation were "entirely his own".

The government is considering reducing the annual target from 0.7% of national income to 0.5%.

Rows are brewing within the parties - and between the powerful Public Accounts Committee and the government.

Freezing public sector pay in response to UK budget pressures would be "the wrong answer”, the first minister of Wales says.

It follows reports the UK government is planning such a move.

Mark Drakeford said: "The notion that the costs of dealing with this pandemic should be heaped onto the shoulders of frontline public servants seems to me to be exactly the wrong answer to the experience we've gone through together.

He added: "It doesn't make sense to me in sheer economics to extract purchasing power from the economy at a time when you want the economy to recover."

Mr Drakeford explained that due to the funding formula used to calculate how much money the Welsh Government gets from the Treasury, any decision to freeze teachers’ pay in England would limit what the Welsh Government could do for teachers in Wales.

“We will face some very difficult dilemmas,” he said.

“But they will be dilemmas of the UK government's making and at the moment my efforts are focused on saying to the Chancellor, ‘please don't go down that path, it's neither fair to the people involved, nor does it make sense economically’.”