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 […]
Please click the image below to read more: Exclusive: Staff from the Outhousebar in Edinburgh say they felt “uncomfortable” after finding out that a group of people affiliated with the Scottish Family Party had booked a table at the venue. Three customers were refused entry to an Edinburgh pub after staff found out that they […]
Please click the image below to read more: Some events planned for Scotland may be cancelled or moved to other parts of the UK if the Scottish Government does not respond to concerns over vaccine passports. A business chief says that losing big events just as the sector is getting back on its feet would […]