内容摘要："We are bringing back political and financial stability, creating the conditions for economic growth through investment and reform," the spokesperson added.

"We are bringing back political and financial stability, creating the conditions for economic growth through investment and reform," the spokesperson added.

"At first blush, there is precious little in the government’s first Budget which offers anything other than short-term pain," said Roger Barker, director of policy at the Institute of Directors.The Liberal Democrats welcomed the extra money for the NHS "to start repairing all the damage done to local health services by the Conservatives".

But leader Sir Ed Davey said: "Raising employer’s National Insurance is a tax on jobs and high streets, and it will make the health and care crisis worse by hitting thousands of small care providers."Scotland will receiveas a result of the Budget.

First Minister John Swinney has been calling for the UK government to "immediately and significantly" increase funding for Scotland.The SNP government has already cut £500m from its budget this year, with ministers warning that without extra cash they would need to make difficult choices when they set out their tax and spending plans for next year in December.

In March of this year, Catherine O'Sullivan's son, Jack, went for a night out in Bristol and never came home.

In the weeks that followed, she left the porch light on, just in case he returned."You think, 'could it happen again?' They know when something's up, it just sort of took the fun out of it for a while," he said.

Three horses were killed out of 270 road incidents involving horses in the West Midlands in 2023, figures from the British Horse Society (BHS) revealed.Eighty-one took place in Staffordshire, 61 in Shropshire and 59 in Warwickshire, the BHS said.

There were 55 in Worcestershire, nine in the West Midlands and five in Herefordshire.The organisation said it feared a large number of drivers might still be unaware of