Please click the image below to read more: I suppose it was only a matter of time before Nicola Sturgeon jumped on the grievance wagon again, and unsurprisingly, her ‘any issue to complain’ is about the HGV driver and fuel shortage. There are two things which should be established about both issues which the ‘pro […]
Please click the link below to read more: Home to around one-fifth of the nation’s population and sustaining hundreds of thousands of jobs, the city will shape Scotland’s economic performance in the years ahead. This week, the 23rd annual State of the City Economy Conference will be held in Glasgow and hear about the opportunities […]
Please click the link below to read more: NHS Highland has paid out millions of pounds to current and former staff who said they were victims of workplace bullying. The health board, which covers the Highlands and Argyll and Bute, has so far made 150 financial payments – totalling more than £2m – as part […]
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 […]