Hospital and care staff are to be given a one-off "thank you"payment for their "extraordinary service" in 2020.

An update due as soon as next week will let users on low incomes get support if told to stay at home.

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%.