The leader of Highland Council said there had been ‘no real engagement’ on plans to house 300 male asylum seekers at a barracks in Inverness.

The new deputy leader’s intervention could cause a headache for Chancellor Rachel Reeves, who has rolled the pitch for higher taxes at her Budget.

Actress Pauline Collins, who starred in Shirley Valentine, has died at the age of 85, her family has announced. She died “peacefully at her care home in Highgate this week, having endured Parkinson’s ...