Bad week for:

King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands could lose subsidies of €4.7m over five years if he refuses to keep the 16,000-acre Het Loo crown estate open to the public all year round, says The Times. The king closes the estate – which is also a nature reserve – from 15 September to 25 December “for reason sofh is ‘private lif e’” – widely seen as shorthand for hunting.The government wan tsf or it to remain open atleast 358 days a year between sunrise and sunset.

A £3m project that saw the Scottish Prison Service issue more than 7,000 inmates wit hm obile phones when visits were restricted over lockdown has backfired, says ITV News. The “supposedly tamper-proof” phones were hacked by inmates who used them to arrange drug deals and criminal activity. The prison service ha ssof ar found 728 phones with illegal SIM cards, but estimates around a third of the phones have been hacked.