Families in Durness gathered last Thursday to mark the official opening of the village’s newly refurbished play park.

Mr Hamilton joined demonstrators from campaign group Save Wimbledon Park outside the Royal Courts of Justice on Tuesday.

Tory former Cabinet minister Lord Norman Tebbit, who has died aged 94, was an “icon in British politics”, Kemi Badenoch said.

England has had the hottest spring and the driest for more than a century, with northern areas drought-stricken.

HITA chairman, Calum Ross, congratulated this year’s finalists: “A huge well done to all of our finalists for making it onto ...