Following the announcement by Westminster last year to close the factory, Dundee City Council established a cross-party group of MPs, MSPs, councillors and trade unions to look at the feasibility of bidding for the business and creating a sustainable enterprise.

BBC: Dundee Remploy factory plan 'not feasible'

Now unionists at Stormont are calling for the Union flag to be flown 365 days a year over Parliament Buildings - a proposal that seems destined to divide the cross-party commission that manages the Assembly building.

BBC: No mainstream party can wash its hands of flag dispute

The report by the cross-party group comes after the National Audit Office and Diabetes UK both published critical studies on diabetes care this year.

BBC: Diabetes care depressingly poor, say MPs