Nicola Sturgeon 'misled' Holyrood Inquiry over Alex Salmond meeting, MSPs conclude

By When Thurgood Marshall founded the Legal Defense and Education Fund under the NAACP umbrella in 1940, America was embroiled in racial discrimination and early fights for civil rights. Eighty years later, the charge against our nation's inequities and injustices is Sherrilyn Ifill, who first joined the organization in 1988 as an assistant counsel in the area of voting rights.Following a 20-year hiatus from the institution in order to teach law at the University of Maryland, where she accomplished groundbreaking centered on civil rights, discrimination, and lynchings in the 21st century, Ifill returned in 2013 to take the reins as the seventh president and director-counsel of LDF. She was the second woman ever to do so, behind .

Fremantle has acquired a 25% stake in Henrik Bastin’s Fabel Entertainment, the international development and production outfit behind Prime Video’s cop drama series Bosch.

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“The Wizard of Oz” graced the silver screens, a prized piece from the set is going up for auction for the very first time.The Tin Man’s oil can from the 1939 technicolor fantasy is being sold for $200,000, according to TMZ.Kruse GWS Auctions is holding the sale and noted on the product description page that film historians say this is one of five oil cans used during filming, while other experts say there were three.The container can be seen at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles.The can is currently on loan to the museum through November 2022.According to the auction house, the museum was also interested in letting the winning bidder keep the golden prop at the gallery after the loan agreement is satisfied in November.The item will come with a redacted copy of the loan agreement for the Academy Museum as well as an insurance appraisal of $1 million.The iconic musical starred Judy Garland as the wide-eyed Dorothy, with Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley, Billie Burke and Margaret Hamilton completing the ensemble cast.Garland’s blue gingham dress from the movie was finally found last year after being missing for almost 50 years.The costume was mysteriously lost in 1972 and was found on the Catholic University campus in Washington, DC in June 2021.The college’s lecturer and operations coordinator for drama and music, Matt Ripa, unearthed the dress as he was cleaning out an area of one of the school’s buildings.

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Regé-Jean Page, 33, and girlfriend Emily Brown made an appearance together at the Dunhill GQ pre-BAFTA filmmakers dinner in London on March 9, looking adorable as they walked hand-in-hand into the event. Regé-Jean looked dapper as always, in a crisp, black tux, pairing the look with stylish black loafers.

Alexisonfire have announced their first studio album in 13 years, ‘Otherness’ – listen to new track ‘Sweet Dreams Of Otherness’ below.The Canadian post-hardcore band’s most recent full-length effort, ‘Old Crows/Young Cardinals’, came out back in 2009 – two years before they announced that they were separating.They reunited for a number of live shows in 2015 and shared their first track in nine years, ‘Familiar Drugs’, in 2019.Having been announced as part of the Slam Dunk Festival 2022 line-up, Alexisonfire have returned today (March 10) with news of their long-awaited fifth record. ‘Otherness’ is due to arrive on June 24 via Dine Alone – you can pre-order/pre-save it here.Speaking of the group’s explosive new single, lead singer George Pettit explained: “This song was largely Dallas’ [Green] brainchild, but over the course of writing this record it became more of a mission statement for the band.“It’s kind of about performance and embracing a newfound confidence in a state of peculiarity.”An animated accompanying video by actor/director Jay Baruchel (This Is The End, Random Acts Of Violence, How To Train Your Dragon) will premiere on Alexisonfire’s official YouTube channel at 11:15pm GMT tonight – check out the clip above.The forthcoming ‘Otherness’ contains 10 new songs in total, including ‘Committed To The Con’, ‘Conditional Love’, Dark Night Of The Soul and ‘Reverse The Curse’.

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Chris Evans rarely posts pictures of himself on social media, so it's natural that when he does, it causes quite a stir among his fans, as it did with his latest Instagram post.MORE: Chris Evans shares trailer for upcoming Buzz Lightyear movie - and fans all have the same thoughtThe actor took to his social feed to share a rare selfie of himself simply on his couch sporting some facial hair and a tousled yet fluffy hair do.WATCH: Chris Evans stars as Buzz Lightyear in new trailerHe commented on the state of his hair while saying: "Fluffy hair [check] #ghosted," a reference to the project he is currently working on titled Ghosted, and fans very quickly took to the comments section to react.The snap racked up over a million likes within the first two hours of posting and many immediately began raving over the star's appearance.RELATED: Jonathan Van Ness reveals why you really shouldn't sleep with your hair downOne wrote: "#fluffyhairdontcare," while another added: "The new hairstyle fits you perfectly Mr Evans," with a third also saying: "I MEANNNN."Many were simply thrilled to see that he had posted a picture of himself after quite a while, as one fan put it: "STOP HE POSTED HIMSELF," and another quipped: "Chris I need 3-5 business days to recover from this selfie." Chris had fans abuzz with his latest fluffy-haired selfieThe Marvel star prefers to keep his own appearance off social media after only joining Instagram in 2020 because, as he put to Jimmy Kimmel: "I guess I caved.""I feel like such an old man; I feel so late to the party. You know what it is? I had too many good pictures of my dog.

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Scottish Parliament later today. The Scottish Tories said they will press ahead with a vote in First Minister Nicola Sturgeon after a Holyrood committee found she misled parliament.

See more. Nicola Sturgeon "misled" Parliament over a key aspect of the Alex Salmond debacle, a report of the Holyrood Inquiry has confirmed.

First Minister was published earlier today and concluded there were "serious flaws" in the process. It also reported that Nicola Sturgeon had "misled" the parliament in some of her evidence.

Get the latest Scottish crime and courts news sent straight to your inbox with our Criminal Record newsletter.Leslie Evans, the top civil servant in Scotland, has come in for criticism in the Holyrood committee report on the Alex Salmond investigation debacle.The committee report makes clear that the "multiple roles being fulfilled by the Permanent Secretary during the complaints process should have been seen as a risk".Evans is accused by the committee report of "individual failing" over the Government's response to Salmond's judicial review.Labour MSP Jackie Baillie, a member of the Inquiry, said: “The thread that runs through the rushed development of the harassment policy and the flawed implementation of the handling of complaints is

First Minister leaked last week, ruled that she had given an "inaccurate" account of a meeting with her predecessor during her Government’s botched probe into him. Set up in 2019, the Committee has been investigating the SNP Government’s mis-handling of sexual misconduct complaints against Salmond when he was First Minister.Salmond pursued a judicial review and it was agreed the Government probe, which destroyed his friendship with Sturgeon, had been unlawful and tainted by apparent bias.

Alex Salmond row. Sturgeon has faced immense political pressure over her government's unlawful sexual misconduct probe into Salmond.A Holyrood committee inquiry will tomorrow rule she misled parliament over a key aspect of the controversy, but a separate probe by Irish lawyer James Hamilton saw her exonerated.The Tories are planning a vote on Sturgeon tomorrow, but the parliamentary arithmetic looks grim for Douglas Ross' party.Harvie, whose contingent of Green MSPs can effectively determined tight votes, said they would not back the Tories.:“Unlike other political parties we’ve said all along that we would respect due process, we therefore welcome the publication of James Hamilton’s independent report.

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First Minister 's resignation amid accusations she misled parliament about her involvement in the Alex Salmond investigation. It followed a leak that the inquiry into the Government's unlawful investigation into harassment complaints against the former first minister has reportedly concluded that Ms Sturgeon gave an "inaccurate" account of meetings with Mr Salmond.

Alex Salmond ­during the Crown Office’s failed attempt to prosecute him for sexual offences.Official documents revealed the huge cost of Operation Diem.It lasted almost two years and at its height had 14 dedicated officers led by Detective Chief Superintendent Lesley Boal.They carried out 386 interviews and the former first minister was eventually charged with 14 offences – before being cleared of all allegations in the High Court.The £834,000 cost has been revealed in a letter from Police Scotland Chief ­Constable Iain Livingstone to Holyrood’s Public Audit Committee.It states: “A small dedicated team worked on Operation Diem from Fettes Police Station, Edinburgh, between August 2018 and April 2020.“This team was comprised of seven

Nicola Sturgeon’s extreme career highs and lows.In October she could do no wrong, with support for ­Scottish independence soaring to 58 per cent on the back of her ­handling of the pandemic.Now the First ­Minister is facing calls to resign over claims she misled Parliament and a ­committee of MSPs while giving evidence under oath.If the latter charge in relation to her appearance before the Alex Salmond inquiry is proven, it could be more than her job on the line.Supporters will insist the scandal is being overblown by political enemies at Westminster and ­Holyrood determined to scupper Scottish independence.

misled parliament when setting out when she first knew about complaints made against her predecessor, Alex Salmond. The SNP leader is currently being investigated by two separate inquiries, both of which are due to report next week.But leaks from a committee of MSPs - set up to investigate the Scottish Government's botched complaints process - suggest Sturgeon could be found to have misled Holyrood.The First Minister gave evidence to the Inquiry for eight hours earlier this month and she has insisted she stands by her testimony.Now the Tories have given her until Tuesday to quit or face a motion of no confidence.Tory MSP Ruth Davidson said: “If Nicola Sturgeon has a shred of integrity, she should be considering her position.

Nicola Sturgeon has responded directly after it was revealed MSPs concluded she 'misled the 'Holyrood Inquiry into her Government’s botched sexual misconduct probe into Alex Salmond. MSPs on the Scottish Government Handling of Harassment Complaints Committee voted 5-4 that the First Minister gave an "inaccurate" account of a meeting with her predecessor during the live investigation.

Scottish Government, appeared in private on Monday.

David Davis as being an “old pal” of her predecessor who had used his position to spread “conspiracy theories”. In a heated First Minister’s Questions (FMQs), Sturgeon also called on Tory MSP Ruth Davidson to stop listening to Salmond and his “cronies”.

The unnamed woman said claims by Tory MP David Davis that Liz Lloyd knew of the Government’s Salmond probe in February 2018, or got involved, were “fundamentally untrue”. A Holyrood committee is investigating the SNP Government’s mis-handling of sexual misconduct complaints against Salmond when he was First Minister.

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Alex Salmond. It comes after former Brexit Minister David Davis dropped a bombshell in the House of Commons last night when he revealed he received 'whistleblower' information that said the First Minister knew of the complaints against Salmond in February, not in April like she had stated.

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Douglas Ross said today that a timeline for a vote of no confidence in the First Minister will shortly be announced.The Tory MP insisted the SNP leader had lied to parliament over when she knew about allegations of harassment against Alex Salmond - which if proven would be a breach of the ministerial code - and he would look to oust her in the final weeks of the parliamentary session.Sturgeon referred herself for investigation to the independent adviser on the ministerial code, James Hamilton, who is currently looking into the allegations.Ross said in a speech today: “The evidence against Nicola Sturgeon is overwhelming and mounting up every day.“If we allow her to get away with this, then we say that the truth is worthless in Scottish