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A government scheme aimed at cutting energy use by insulating homes was botched on a vast scale, a spending watchdog has found, leaving tens of thousands of homes in need of remedial work.

The pharmacists' watchdog has promised to investigate and "take action" after the BBC exposed illegal and potentially harmful practices in the aesthetic Botox industry.

Among other challenges to be confronted by whoever is in charge, repeated warnings from financial watchdogs that levels of social spending in Scotland are unsustainable.

The watchdog has collected ideas on how to ease the regulatory burden on lenders while maintaining financial stability, Routledge said, and proposed changes would be released later in the fall.

On Friday, anti-graft watchdog Transparency International called on the European Parliament, "as the EU's only directly elected body", to set up its own inquiry into the matter.