Brian Bell

Edward Carty, 31, allowed the car he was driving to drift and veer off the A90 road near Errol, Perthshire. It went down an embankment and hit trees, killing Rebecca Tasker, 32. Carty had driven for about 14 hours on a cross-country road trip from Arbroath, Angus, to Lochinver, Sutherland, and back before tragedy struck.

A disqualified driver who admitted killing a young mum in a horror crash after falling asleep at the wheel has been told he faces jail. Edward Carty, 30, had been driving for 14 hours without a break before the smash on the A90  near Errol, Perthshire, on August 12, 2022.

Home Office data showed the overall number of migrants and their dependants who applied for three main types of visa fell by nearly a third year-on-year. It included a 79 per cent drop in the number of student dependants who applied for a visa after the route was restricted in January to families of research postgraduates only. In the first five months of 2023, 46,700 student dependants applied to come here - compared with just 9,700 in the same period this year. The number of foreign care workers who applied to bring family members to the UK also fell from 78,600 in the first five months of last year to