It is possible, politically, to understand the reasoning behind the announcement. Head off SNP accusations that if Labour ...

Elsewhere, Angela Rayner's £350m pledge to build new affordable homes "will not touch the sides", a major housing association ...

Scottish ministers will seek views on the reform of council tax this year, it has been announced, as one local authority set out plans for a 10 per cent hike from April. The SNP has consistently ...

Scotland's councils are to decide on local tax rates over the coming weeks, with many mulling rises of up to 10%. Rates have ...

Energy minister replies that government is following 'due process' when it comes to two proposed Scottish oil and gas fields ...

With the stroke of a pen, John Swinney could end the SNP’s ideological opposition to nuclear power and transform our energy ...

John Swinney admitted at a summit of health chiefs that he had an “electoral problem” with the state of Scotland’s NHS, it ...

The Holocaust Educational Trust helped part-fund a trip to Auschwitz-Birkenau in early November for students, including Eva Farnell and ...

J.K. Rowling taunted those on the left who have been fighting to allow biological males to compete in women's sports after ...

Leith Theatre, a historic Edinburgh theater that has been on the 'at-risk' register for nearly a decade, is set to be saved ...

Libraries must remain the ‘beating heart’ of Scottish communities - Libraries are special places and must be protected.

A patient has been left to languish in a hospital bed despite being medically fit to go home for more than SEVEN YEARS, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.