The justice secretary will be given the power to veto changes to sentencing guidelines proposed by an independent body, following a "two-tier justice" row.
The UK's first safer drug consumption room should not be seen as a "silver bullet" to tackle Scotland's drug deaths crisis, a Westminster committee has said.
A woman known as the "Ketamine Queen", who supplied the fatal dose of the drug that killed actor Matthew Perry, has been sentenced to 15 years in jail.
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