Tim Wafer was giving evidence to the Scottish Hospitals Inquiry on the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital campus in Glasgow.

Difference of ideas, or ways of expressing them, is ‘increasingly seen as a threat’, the vice-chancellor has suggested.

Dr Jim McCormack was said to have made the remark two years before Letby was eventually arrested, the inquiry at Liverpool Town Hall heard.

Alexander and Diana Darwall are challenging an earlier ruling which said that members of the public have the right to wild camp in the national park.

The jury in the trial of a schoolgirl accused of attempting to murder two teachers and another pupil at a school in South Wales has been sent home for the day.

A trainee police officer who had spoken about depression and suicide was left waiting months for work occupational health appointments before being found dead, an inquest heard.