3 hours ago Scotland's 'dental deserts' reveal folly of SNP obsession with universal benefits

Maintaining universal benefits – giving taxpayers’ money to people who don’t need it – makes no sense when frontline services like NHS dentistry are effectively non-existent in parts of the country

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5 hours ago Scottish dentists demand action from SNP Government over 'dental deserts'

The British Dental Association has urged the SNP Government to create "a fully funded workforce plan in place so NHS dentistry in Scotland can recruit and retain the dentists it needs."

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17 hours ago Government cannot guarantee job for every laid off Grangemouth worker – Murray

Scottish Secretary Ian Murray said both the UK and Holyrood Governments were trying to secure work for the employees facing redundancy.

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17 hours ago Plans for major new housing and retail development near Stirling is rejected on appeal

Ambitious plans to develop an area of land near Thornhill, Stirling, in to a housing and retail development were this week booted out after Scottish Government appeals reporter rejected the developer's appeal.

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18 hours ago Businessman Sir Tom Hunter paid to return Alex Salmond’s body to Scotland

The entrepreneur said he ‘deserved the dignity and privacy of a private return to the home of his birth’.

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20 hours ago Body of former first minister Salmond to be flown back to Scotland on Friday

Alex Salmond’s body will be returned from North Macedonia on a chartered plane paid for by an unnamed private individual.

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24 hours ago North Lanarkshire Council leader Jim Logue and Scottish and UK governments mark decade of Glasgow City Region City Deal

Signed in 2014, the deal provides £500 million each from the UK and Scottish governments for a range of infrastructure, employability and innovation projects with the eight local councils contributing a further £130 million.

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27 hours ago Ministers speed up ‘skills passport’ for workers to move to clean energy jobs

Scottish and UK governments to sign deal on boosting green energy supply chains and infrastructure

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29 hours ago Scottish Government should have stepped in to pay to send Alex Salmond's body home

Record View says it’s legitimate to ask why Holyrood officials did not offer at the outset to pay for the repatriation of a former first minister.

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