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 […]
Please click the image below to read more: AN SNP-backing comic has made a grovelling apology over highly offensive tweets as it emerged she’s being paid £12,000 by taxpayers for a Covid social media campaign. Janey Godley apologised for Twitter jokes using terms with language that mocks disabled people – including “spazzy” – after her […]
Please click the image below to read more: SWAMPED contact tracers are being told to stop chasing Covid-positive Scots if two calls ring out in four hours. Backlogs caused by the recent virus spike, coupled with staff shortages, are pushing Scotland’s Test and Protect system to breaking point, according to one insider. The whistleblower says […]
Please click the image below to read more: Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is being urged to clarify her government’s position on antisemitism after it emerged Holyrood’s power-sharing partners believe Zionism is a “racist ideology”. In 2015 the Scottish Greens approved a motion that declared Hamas was not a terrorist organisation while branding Israel an […]
dgfhftPlease click the image below to read more: Bereaved families have called on ministers to include them in preparations for Scotland’s public inquiry into the official response to the pandemic. Cathie Russell, who lost her mother Rose Hamilton, 89, in July, leads the Care Home Relatives Scotland campaign group and said that, despite meeting with current Health […]
Please click the image below to read more: Two flagship venues hosting the upcoming COP26 climate change summit have received the second lowest possible rating for energy efficiency, with work yet to commence on a raft of legally binding improvements issued by assessors in order to reduce CO2 emissions. The SEC Armadillo in Glasgow has […]
Please click the image below to read more: A leading economist appointed to Nicola Sturgeon’s panel of advisers has warned that the damage from tearing up the 300-year-old Union between Scotland and England risks being equivalent of “Brexit times ten”. Mark Blyth, professor of international economics at the Watson Institute of Brown University in Rhode […]
Please click the image below to read more: Hungry school pupils queued up for their dinner at a Scots soup kitchen, leaving the organisers “heartbroken.” The two children, thought to be aged between seven and eight, were served at the Glasgow city centre soup kitchen on Tuesday night. Run by Homeless Project Scotland, the service operates on Argyle […]