Paralympic legend Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson has warned that the move to legalise assisted suicide in Scotland would make identifying “another Dr Harold Shipman” incredibly difficult.

NHS England’s gender identity clinic for children and young people is not fit for purpose, an independent report has found.

Campaigners for safe single-sex spaces have been likened to racial segregationists in an article cited by the Scottish Government to support its plans to allow over-16s to choose their own legal gender.

The Court of Appeal will hear a legal challenge to a law allowing babies with Down’s syndrome to be aborted up to birth.