Please click the link below to read more: Social care sector ‘on its knees’ amid recruitment crisis The social care sector in Scotland is “on its knees”, it has been claimed, amid a warning that a lack of new recruits could force services to grind to a halt. Lynn Bell, CEO of LOVE Group, a […]
Please click below to read more: It is difficult at the moment not to feel that we are in the very eye of a momentous political and economic version of exactly that. For 18 months, we had endured the seemingly unending and life-threatening waves of the pandemic, to the point where we seemed almost to […]
Please click below to read more: RAF Lossiemouth have welcomed their newest Poseidon MRA Mk1 Maritime Patrol Aircraft, ZP806. The submarine-hunter, named ‘Guernsey’s Reply’, is the sixth Poseidon aircraft to arrive at the Moray base and will operate as part of the re-established 201 Squadron. The Royal Air Force say here that the aircrafts name honours the […]
Please click the image below to read more: The health service is in “absolute crisis”, warned Unison, while the Royal College of Nursing said nurses were “crying on a daily basis” and frightened of the winter to come. It comes as the first soldiers are set to begin driving ambulances this weekend, after a request […]
Please click the image below to read more: Shamed Derek Mackay allowed a controversial banker to be appointed head of a new £2billion government fund without ethics watchdog oversight. The former Finance Minister personally approved an “unregulated” selection process that installed Willie Watt as chair of the Scottish National Investment Bank (SNIB), the Sunday Mail can reveal. Watt has […]
Please click the image below to read more: With the recent news that Rosyth will build a warship for Ukraine, the total number of warships being built in Scottish shipyards between 2015 to 2035 now stands at 24. In addition to the now built 5 Offshore Patrol Vessels, there are plans for 8 Type 26 […]
Please click the link below to read more: No money has been paid into a financial redress scheme for abuse survivors despite the Scottish Government claiming it will be ready to start by the end of the year. Redress Scotland was set up following the passage of legislation in March, and would offer financial payments […]
Please click the link below to read more: No Scottish Government ministers have visited Edinburgh Airport to discuss the impact of the pandemic, its chief executive has said, as he published a report calling for action to assist the industry’s recovery. Chief executive Gordon Dewar called for government action over issues such as a discrepancy […]
Please click the link below to read more: A mother whose daughter died at a children’s cancer ward after contracting an infection has described her child’s death as “murder”. Kimberly Darroch told the Scottish Hospitals Inquiry she wants the children and adult hospitals at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (QEUH) campus in Glasgow to close. […]
Please click the image below to read more: Nicola Sturgeon has been accused of wasting taxpayers’ money after figures showed that Scotland is spending three times as much as England on keeping railway services running during Covid. Holyrood has paid almost £60 for every passenger journey since the pandemic struck compared with £22 south of […]