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RAF Tornado crash: Lord advocate agrees to meet inquiry campaigners pressandjournal.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from pressandjournal.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Weekend rewind: The top 10 Scottish politics stories you need to read July 24 2021, 6.00am Just in time for the weekend, here’s a look at the top 10 political must-reads from the last seven days: 1. John Swinney apologises after being reported to statistics watchdog over ‘fake news’ Covid tweet Covid recovery secretary John Swinney had to apologise this week after being reported to the UK Statistics Authority over his use of a “fake news” infographic. On Monday morning Mr Swinney tweeted a badly cropped image used in a well-known meme with claims about mask protection. Those figures have been strongly disputed by international fact checking websites. As Derek Healey reports, by Wednesday the Scottish Conservatives had written to the UK’s National Statistician to flag up the problematic graphic and Mr Swinney – who is also deputy first minister – deleted the post from his Twitter account with an apology. Read the full story here. ....
EXCLUSIVE: Father of tragic RAF officer asks for new Tornado crash inquiry thecourier.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thecourier.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Dorothy Bain urged to order probe into tragic RAF Tornado jet crash Updated: 10/07/2021, 3:11 pm Dorothy Bain QC New Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain has been asked to order a fatal accident inquiry (FAI) into the 2012 RAF Tornado jet crash over the Moray Firth. The prosecution service chief, who was appointed to the lord advocate post last month, has been urged to reconsider the case for a court probe into the tragedy by local campaigner Jimmy Jones and Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross. Mr Jones claimed that the previous lord advocate, James Wolffe, was a “major stumbling block” in his bid for an FAI into the mid-air crash, which claimed the lives of three crew from RAF Lossiemouth. ....