Please click the image below to read more: Just over a third of voters are in favour of a second independence referendum within the next two years, a poll has found. The Survation poll carried out for the pro-UK campaign group Scotland in Union found only 38 per cent of those surveyed want a second vote […]
Please click the image below to read more: t’s Groundhog Day in Holyrood. Amid criticisms about her administration’s underwhelming ‘Programme for Government,’ Nicola Sturgeon has returned to her favourite hobby house: Scottish independence. Much like ABBA’s reunion, the First Minister combined some new tunes with her greatest hits, declaring that May’s election was an ‘undeniable’ mandate […]
Please click the image below to read more: The Royal College of Nursing Scotland has demanded action as it emerged that vacancies within nursing and midwifery amounted to 4,900 posts, Vacancies within the NHS have reached “record levels”, as figures showed that more than 500 consultant positions and almost 5,000 jobs in nursing and midwifery […]
Please click the image below to read more: A wind turbine factory in Argyll has been permanently closed, with administrators now selling off equipment used at the site. Owners CS Wind effectively mothballed the Campbeltown factory, which manufactured offshore and onshore wind farm equipment, in the spring of 2020. The company said “deteriorating market conditions” […]
Please click the image below to read more: Speaking at the Scottish Parliament’s education committee on Wednesday, the report’s co-author Dr Beatriz Pont warned Scotland needed to “drop the politics” and focus on policy to move forward. The authors of the report, published in June, also told MSPs the Scottish National Standardised Assessments (SNSA) were […]
Click the image below to read more: A bombshell internal report written by SNP Deputy Leader Keith Brown has revealed the dire state of the party’s internal affairs: not only does the report suggest creating a new financial scrutiny committee to “restore confidence” in the SNP’s financial governance, it also shows that party has been “overwhelmed” by […]
Click the image below to read more: IN To A Louse, Robert Burns laments “O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us, To see oursels as ithers see us!”, which, roughly translated, means that it is a shame that we can’t see ourselves as other people do, faults and all. Given that, thankfully, in the last 334 […]
Please click the image below to read more: A plan to set up a state-owned energy company has been dropped by the Scottish Government, Daily Business has learned. Four years after promising a state-backed company delivering low cost power, ministers are now focusing efforts on a “new dedicated national public energy agency” that will be more of […]
Please click the link below to read more: Boris Johnson has said Scotland will receive more than £1bn as he announced plans to raise additional cash for social care reform across the UK. The Prime Minister announced that in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic the UK Government is to introduce a new health and […]
Please click the image below to read more: The move will involve the majority of Scotland’s 4,000 buses by the end of 2023, and trains on the Fife Circle and Borders Railway by the following year. The dates were included in the Scottish Government’s latest annual Programme for Government, which sets out policies for the […]