内容摘要：On her second day of cross-examination on Friday, Ms Patterson told the court she accepted that invites to her house were rare, but said she'd arranged the occasion to discuss a health issue and wanted to make a nice meal for her relatives to thank them for their support.

On her second day of cross-examination on Friday, Ms Patterson told the court she accepted that invites to her house were rare, but said she'd arranged the occasion to discuss a health issue and wanted to make a nice meal for her relatives to thank them for their support.

He also rejected claims Reform had created a poisonous atmosphere in Scottish politics, insisting parties were "terrified" of Reform.The Conservatives managed to avoid a worst-case scenario of losing their deposit by winning more than 5% of the vote.

Scottish Conservative finance spokesperson Craig Hoy described it as a "disappointing" night.He said party was determined to "restore trust with the Scottish people".In the lead up to the vote both Labour and the SNP

over an online advert criticising Anas Sarwar.The video, posted on Facebook and Instagram, features clips from a speech Sarwar made in 2022.

Reform added text claiming that Sarwar wanted to "prioritise the Pakistani community" - despite the Glasgow MSP not saying that.

Farage defended the video and during a campaign visit to Scotland and accused Sarwar of "sectarian politics".Since then, police forces have had to make their own evidence storage arrangements and contract private providers for forensic services.

Prof McCartney said she had witnessed an officer pull out what he called a "box of horrors" from underneath a desk which contained various pieces of un-catalogued evidence including a plastic bag with a broken wine bottle in it and a car numberplate.All Items held by the FSS from before 2012 were moved to a different facility - the National Forensics Archive just outside of Birmingham - that year, but that archive is for unsolved cases only and does not accept new items.

Exhibits in the archive were crucial in overturning the convictions of bothIts director Alison Fendley says that without a dedicated forensic service, police forces were currently suffering from a lack of resources and expertise at a local level.