Unions say the increase is long overdue, and necessary, to attract graduates into the profession.
The cost of specialist support takes "officers off the street", a chief constable says.
Every week 11 terminally-ill people in Scotland suffer in pain as they die, campaigners say.
"I've never seen this many different plastics in one place," chemistry professor Tony Ryan says.
Intimate, off-guard images of acclaimed actors as they gear up to go on stage.
The Glasgow razor gang are making their mark in the latest season of Peaky Blinders.
After a decade as a Buddhist monk, Andy Puddicombe set up Headspace with one of his clients.
Richard Browning revives a 1934 dream by delivering a letter to the Isle of Wight in a jet suit.
Johanna Konta reaches the US Open quarter-finals for the first time by edging an unpredictable match against Karolina Pliskova.
MPs will have the whip withdrawn and be deselected if they rebel against the government, a source says.
A thousand painters gathered on the Cornish coastline in an attempt to break a world record.
An advertising campaign urging the public to prepare for Britain's exit from the EU begins.
Industry body says it is "categorically untrue" fresh food would be unaffected by a no-deal Brexit.
Police have been searching the B&M store in Perth which was destroyed in a suspicious blaze a week ago.
Hundreds gather to remember Michelle Pearson, who died 20 months after an arson attack at her home.
The 21-year-old, from the Middlesbrough area, is in custody after being arrested in London.
The pilot of Otto the Helicopter explains what it's like to fire off 1,000 fireworks during an air display.
Police want to speak to Leon Symons from Cardiff in connection with Harry Baker's death.
The video by The 1975 shows singer Matt Healy wearing a fake vest and appearing to detonate it.
The child was flown to Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool after the attack on Saturday.
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