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    Video caption: 'If you're not on Instagram, you don't exist'

    The Bishop of Birmingham tells the House of Lords about importance social media for young people.

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    Video caption: PMQs: Blackford and Starmer of crofters and Australia deal

    A UK-Australia trade deal would be the “final nail in the coffin" for Scottish crofters, says Ian Blackford.

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    Video caption: PMQs: Starmer and Johnson on amber list travel advice

    The PM says people should not be going to an amber list country except in the "most extreme circumstances".

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    Video caption: PMQs: Johnson asked about his Covid care nurse leaving NHS

    Labour's Andy Slaughter calls for the prime minister to give NHS nurses “more than an insulting 1% pay rise”.

  5. Education brief moves from Swinney to Sommerville

    Shirley-Anne Somerville takes on the role of Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills.

    She will "take forward work on Covid recovery within the education system" as well as continuing efforts to close the attainment gap.

    The MSP was social security minister in the previous Scottish government.

    Shirley-Anne Somerville