BREAKING US Army says 55% of "customers" (1.87m people) on Puerto Rico have no drinking water, up from 44% (1.5m) in the past four days.
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James Cook
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Scotland Editor for @BBCNews. Formerly North America Correspondent in Los Angeles and Chief News Correspondent for @BBCScotNine.
- I have spent all day on the streets of London. We struggled through throngs of anti-Trump protestors, many tens of thousands of them. I also saw tiny handfuls of Trump fans. This is not fake news. We have the pictures."There were thousands of people on the streets cheering" - President Trump describes protests against his state visit to the UK as "fake news" Live updates: bbc.in/2HTdoDk
00:00 - BREAKING Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon did not breach the ministerial code of conduct, an inquiry finds.
- BREAKING US military says some 1.5 million people (44% of the 3.4m population) are without drinking water on hurricane-stricken Puerto Rico.
- THREAD Labour’s deputy leader Angela Rayner has questioned the government about why it's refusing to release information about contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds awarded to a PPE supplier under investigation by the National Crime Agency. 1/4
- A message in a bottle, written in my home town of Forfar in the 1980s, has washed up 4,000 miles away in Florida. bbc.in/2nhbTDj
- Austyn Crites says 1. I held up Republicans against Trump sign. 2. I was kicked and choked. 3. Someone shouted gun. 4. I was saved by cops.
- True. Except for agriculture, forestry, fisheries, education, training, environment, social services, housing, land use planning, policing, justice, local government, sport, the arts, some forms of taxation, some forms of welfare, many aspects of transport and, crucially, health.Scotland is one of the nations of the United Kingdom & the UK Parliament remains responsible for all of the UK
- BREAKING Recreational marijuana sales are legalised in California. One in five Americans can now purchase a drug banned by the federal government.
- BREAKING The Court of Session in Edinburgh has ruled that the UK Government acted lawfully when it blocked controversial gender reforms in Scotland.
- Since this incident I have heard from producers, camera crews and engineers about the escalating abuse they face simply for bringing you the news. It is fuelled by lies about our journalism designed to make money and to avoid scrutiny. It is unacceptable in a civilised society.We deplore the way in which James Cook was treated, and we commend the professional and courteous way in which he conducted himself despite extreme provocation. No journalist - and no worker - should be subjected to this at their place of work.
- I cannot begin to explain how catastrophically this misunderstands and misjudges the majority mood in Scotland.Just arrived in Scotland. Place is going wild over the vote. They took their country back, just like we will take America back. No games!
- NEW SNP leadership candidate Humza Yousaf just jokingly asked a group of Ukrainian women in Edinburgh “where are all the men?” There was polite and awkward laughter before they explained that many of their partners had stayed in Ukraine to fight in the war.
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