Over one month to go until deal Winter Olympics in south korea, i will be checking out some of our biggest medal prospects. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. A british woman has been sentenced to three years in prison in egypt after being found guilty of smuggling drugs into the country. Laura plummer, whos 33 and from hull, was arrested in october when 300 tablets of the painkiller tramadol were found in her suitcase. Daniela relph reports. Laura plummers family and friends say she is naive, not a criminal. But today the 33 year old shop workerfrom hull is beginning a three year sentence injail in egypt. Her mother, roberta, and her egyptian partner, omar caboo, have been at court to support her during the hearings this week. Laura plummer had been travelling to the red sea resort of hurghada to visit omar in october when she was stopped by the authorities. In her suitcase were 290 tramadol tablets, a painkiller which is legal on prescription in britain, but banned in egypt. She s
Welcome to bbc news. A british woman has been sentenced to three years in prison in egypt after being found guilty of smuggling drugs into the country. Laura plummer, whos 33 and from hull, was arrested in october when 300 tablets of the painkiller tramadol were found in her suitcase. Daniela relph reports. Laura plummers family and friends say she is naive, not a criminal. But today the 33 year old shop workerfrom hull is beginning a three year sentence injail in egypt. Her mother, roberta, and her egyptian partner, omar caboo, have been at court to support her during the hearings this week. Laura plummer had been travelling to the red sea resort of hurghada to visit omar in october when she was stopped by the authorities. In her suitcase were 290 tramadol tablets, a painkiller which is legal on prescription in britain, but banned in egypt. She said the tablets were for her partner, who suffers from severe back pain, but she was arrested and has been held since then in a communal cell
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Service and cultural bodies claimed to be uk institutions that they must be present across our whole united kingdom. To move more of the infrastructure, the people and the administration of our country, out of the capital and into the nation. And it is happening to degree already. More seven serversjobs going to my constituency in central edinburgh. The fantastic new museum in dundee. Ready to show the best of scottish and british design. And here in manchester, the northern powerhouse, now showing the way ahead. But i want to see more. We need to see more. This governments industrial strategy is designed to boost grooves and places across all four nations of our united kingdom. It is reviewing various agencies based in london to see which ones could be ready to move. I want us to seize the opportunity to ensure that more of them come to scotland. And, conference, here is the bottom line. The success of our union cannot and should not be measured by the fact that the alternative has fa