Sturgeon’s de facto referendum plan is dividing the SNP – The Spectator

New naval mine-hunting ‘mother ship’ to be based in Scotland – UK Defence Journal

Scottish households ‘have lower financial wellbeing than the rest of the UK’ – Insider.co.uk

Gordon Brown: Working with the rest of the UK, Scotland can become a world superpower – Yahoo News

Cutting Edinburgh schools speech therapy ‘will hit the most vulnerable hardest’ – Edinburgh Live

Scottish Prison Service concludes Isla Bryson posed ‘no risk to women’ in women’s jail – The Scotsman

The Scottish Government’s enfeebling of local councils is an attack on democracy – Holyrood Magazine