Please click the image below to read more: Nowhere in Europe do more people die from drug abuse than in Scotland. This sad record is the result of social problems, political failure – and a deadly mix of heroin, cocaine and street Valium. If only a little had turned out differently, Jason Wallace wouldn’t have […]
Please click the link below to read more: Hundreds of military personnel will be deployed to support the Scottish Ambulance Service. The UK Government approved the support through the Military Assistance to the Civil Authority (MACA) process. It comes after a request from the Scotland Office, working with the Scottish Government, to tackle long response […]
Please click the image below to read more: The SNP has been accused of serving up a “pathetic” briefing parroting “scripted lines” to party MSPs on the ferries crisis. In the document, leaked to the Record, the Nationalists went back sixteen years to point the finger at the Labour administration under Jack McConnell. Labour MSP Neil Bibby […]
Please click the link below to read more: Waiting times for fatal accident inquiries (FAIs) have jumped by more than a third since last year, according to the Scottish Conservatives. The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) said last year’s figures include five cases, each lasting five years, which have now concluded, and therefore […]
Please click the link below to read more: Many parents whose children were treated at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital have lost faith in it as a safe place for them to be cared for and want answers over what went wrong, an inquiry has heard. The Scottish Hospitals Inquiry began hearing evidence on Monday […]
Please click the link below to read more: A firm developing zero-emission submarines which could transport cargo between Glasgow and Belfast has been awarded a share of £23m of UK Government green maritime funding. The fully automated vessels are designed to be “net positive” by running on green hydrogen and collecting microplastics, the Department for […]
Please click on the image below to read more: As Glasgow prepares to host global leaders at COP26, the eyes of the world are turning towards the city for the first time since the 2014 Commonwealth Games. The pressure is on, and Susan Aitken, the SNP council leader since 2017, is bearing the brunt of […]
Please click the image below to read more: Someone — not, as is often claimed, Churchill — said the best argument against democracy was five minutes with the average voter. Except, that is, in Scotland, where two minutes with the average Cabinet minister will produce much the same effect. Humza Yousaf didn’t utter a peep […]
Please click on the link below to read more: A majority of the issues in Scotland’s hospitals and the knock-on effect to the ambulance service are not due to Covid, a top surgeon has said. Professor Michael Griffin, president of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, warned Scotland has “a real workforce problem in […]
Please click the image below to read more: An SNP official is under investigation after claims he made a threatening phone call to a new business owner. Ian McPherson, a staffer for Westminster MP Allan Dorans, admitted making a “terrible error of judgement” in his call to Ayr painter Craig Hainey. It followed the opening of Mr […]