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Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said the Ukrainian soldiers ‘return to their homeland better equipped, but to no less danger’.

The Senedd’s Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee has criticised the Welsh Government over a £155.5 million underspend in 2020-21.

Casement Park is in the process of being redeveloped.

Reports last week suggested the company is considering ending its 100% staff-owned structure.

The Levelling-Up Secretary said he accepted the former prime minister ‘did not think he was breaking’ Covid rules with lockdown events in No 10.

Carole Gould said she hopes that recommendations made by Clare Wade KC in an independent review will lead to tougher sentencing.

The shadow culture secretary noted broadcasters are bound by licensing conditions ‘which mean they do have to provide balance and some impartiality’.

The next leader of the SNP will be announced in Edinburgh on Monday afternoon.

Former health secretary Matt Hancock told campaigners posing as an international business that his consultancy rate was £10,000 per day.

Dr Robert Laurenson, of the BMA, apologised for the disruption from further strikes but said he does not think they will put patients’ lives at risk.

The Drug Science Scientific Committee also said a blanket ban on nitrous oxide was ‘completely disproportionate’ to the harms it caused.

Vicky Tennant, the UNHCR’s representative to the UK, has criticised the Government’s Illegal Migration Bill.

Shadow culture secretary Lucy Powell announced that Labour is launching an independent review panel into the ‘future direction’ of the broadcaster.

The Glen Affric tartan, which is thought to date to between 1500 and 1600, will go on display at V&A Dundee next month.

Business rates revenues are expected to rise by £1.4bn, or 4.9%, to £29.9bn when new valuations come into force on Saturday April 1.

Delays linking up HS2 and Euston will mean extra costs and potentially even higher spending, the National Audit Office has warned ministers.

OBR chairman Richard Hughes said the effect of Brexit on the economy is on the ‘magnitude’ of the coronavirus pandemic and rising energy prices.

Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove said the use of nitrous oxide in public is a ‘scourge’ and is fuelling anti-social behaviour.

The 1988 Scotland Schools team, who played in New Zealand alongside Doddie Weir, completed an 88km challenge in memory of their former teammate.

West Midlands Police said a 36-year-old-man was arrested on suspicion of blackmail at an address in Warwickshire on Saturday evening.