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 […]
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 […]