SNP ministers have a £700,000-a-year team of 11 civil servants overseeing the planning of a new sales pitch for an independent Scotland, it emerged today. The disclosure came in details published b…

THE head of Scotland’s largest local authority is being probed by watchdogs for letting her husband rent two council shops for just £1 a year. Glasgow City Council leader Susan Aitken chaired meeti…

Joe FitzPatrick is the latest senior nationalist politician to be accused of misleading parliament as he repeated already proven false claims that councils have already received the £6m of UK...

SNP ministers are looking at changing the law to permanently give them some of the emergency powers introduced to tackle covid.

Chancellor Rishi Sunak aims to demonstrate that the Treasury can invest better in Scotland than the SNP-run administration at Holyrood by cutting it out of a £4.8 billion "level up" fund to be...

Exact figure disclosed after near two-year freedom of information battle

The Scottish Government has condemned the spring budget as a “betrayal of public services” after failing to get any more money for investment…

Possibly the main thing keeping Ms Sturgeon in power is the fact there is simply nobody who even looks like an obvious successor to her

MSPs rounded on the Crown Office after it forced the Scottish Parliament to redact the former first minister's submissions to an inquiry into the handling of sexual assault allegations against him.

Does the Scottish National Investment Bank pass the smell test?

Transport Scotland has said it will work with the city administration with a view toward implementing the proposal after councillors ignored warnings about the impact on the city economy

EVERY SNP MP/Councillor on SNP Junket to EUROs/NewYork/Dubai #COP28 pay your own expenses!

Former shipyard owner Jim McColl is among the key industry figures who have deserted the SNP

NATS chiefs faced fury tonight over a secret plan to shut every police station on the patch of Thursday’s crucial Westminster by-election. The bombshell proposal from top brass to close three bases…

A former British diplomat-turned-dissident is detained after voicing support for the people of Palestine.

The former first minister handed over the reins to Humza Yousaf in March as the wheels started to come off the Nat bandwagon

From today under 18s will no longer be allowed to play the lottery or even buy a scratch card.

The First Minister said the Scottish Government would consider funding lateral flow tests for the public if Tory ministers halted the scheme at a UK level.

Investment is pouring into British industry, so why is Scotland missing out, asks TERRY MURDEN

The decision means Scotland's first recall petition moves a step closer, with the Covid shame MP likely to face the sack as a result from the voters of Rutherglen and Hamilton West

The message from John Swinney in July 2020 was highlighted as Ms Sturgeon gave evidence at the official inquiry this afternoon.

A council has made the "overwhelmingly difficult" decision to shut nearly 40 community facilities including libraries and swimming pools…

NATS ministers were urged to explain why they have failed to spend half of a £500million business investment pot. Figures show the Scottish Growth Scheme has dished out £258.9million to 441 compani…

SOMEBODY once said there are few things more dangerous than a mixture of power, arrogance and incompetence. They must have had the Scottish…

Newly elected leaders are often advised to pick one broad issue for which they want to be remembered if they want a legacy that lasts. Otherwise “events” select

A win of Aberdeenshire West - the constituency that takes in Balmoral - would have given Nicola Sturgeon a firm moral mandate to hold a repeat of the 2014 independence referendum.

The SNP is poised to use next week's Budget to introduce a 44 per cent band north of the border from April.

Exclusive: Detectives from the Unresolved Homicide Investigation Team are now involved in the 'corporate manslaughter' complaint against Nicola Sturgeon, Jeane Freeman and the Scottish Government

SNP Health Secretary faces mounting pressure to quit as opposition claims ‘even his own side has given up on him’

Health Secretary Matt Hancock is expected to unveil details of the three-tier set-up as early as Thursday in an attempt to make the existing patchwork of restrictions easier to understand.

The Scottish licensed trade industry has warned that up to two thirds of pubs and bars will not be able to re-open in April due to ongoing coronavirus restrictions making them financially unsustain...