10 h. ago SNP warns 'limited evidence' to establish grooming gangs inquiry as ministers told to restore trust

The Scottish Government has been told to start “rebuilding trust” with survivors of sexual abuse.

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11 h. ago Scottish government confirms cost bringing Tour de France to Edinburgh

Scotland secured the Grand Départ of the 2027 men’s Tour de France nine months ago

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11 h. ago How to reverse depopulation of rural Scotland and turn it into an economic powerhouse

By spending between £80m and £150m a year, the Scottish Government could transform struggling rural communities

Economics

14 h. ago Push made to sell Mossmorran site but no ‘viable offer’ received, say bosses

ExxonMobil has has had both ‘formal and informal’ discussions with potential buyers.

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42 h. ago Watchdog slam 'unacceptable weaknesses' in management of Historic Environment Scotland

Scotland’s Auditor General has found ‘unacceptable weaknesses’ in the governance of Historic Environment Scotland and criticises the quango and the Scottish Government

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56 h. ago Families meet First Minister John Swinney to demand action on deaths in custody

Six families whose loved ones have died in prison custody in the last seven years met with the First Minister John Swinney and Justice Minister Angela Constance at Scottish Government headquarters in Edinburgh for more than an hour.

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63 h. ago Sarwar appeals to SNP and Green MSPs ahead of no confidence vote in Constance

Scottish Justice Secretary Angela Constance is facing a vote of no confidence, which is expected to take place on Tuesday.

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2 d. ago Scotland's NHS 'crumbling' as £1.5bn maintenance backlog revealed

Scottish Labour says the figures reflect the SNP government’s mishandling of the NHS.

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2 d. ago Scottish ports warn of risk of ‘no new Scottish projects’ in offshore wind auction

Port bosses are worried they will miss out financially, despite investing to prepare for future offshore wind projects.

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3 d. ago Scottish Government has presided over 'dysfunction and drift' in bleak appraisal of skills sector

Scotland’s skills and training system is failing to meet modern needs, Gordon Brown’s think tank has claimed.

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5 d. ago Calls for Scottish football’s booze ban to be lifted PERMANENTLY grow as government urged to ‘trust the fans’

PUB chiefs are urging the Scottish Government to “trust the fans” and ditch the booze ban at football grounds. The sale and consumption of alcohol at matches has been prohibited since 1981 in the wake of Scottish Cup final riots between Celtic and Rangers fans a year prior. But there are growing calls to relax the...

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5 d. ago Oil rig safety measures to be probed after Covid death in first of its kind inquiry

Donald Singer, 66, died after contracting Covid-19 in May 2020 and was airlifted from the Ninian Southern Platform to Aberdeen Roayl Infirmary.

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6 d. ago Blackburn MP raises St Kentigern's Academy question in parliament

The Blackburn and Linlithgow MP called on the Prime Minister to join her demand for the Scottish Government to step up to meet the funding gap in light of the £10 billion extra in funding received since July 2024.

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6 d. ago Stirling councillors give thumbs up to 'tourist tax' plans despite delay call

The visitor levy will come into force from June 2027, despite opposition and business calls for a delay to consider possible Scottish Government changes.

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6 d. ago This UK airport could be first to offer fast track to America with ‘preclearance’

Exclusive: Airport boss Gordon Dewar says if Scottish and US governments can agree, ‘we’ll start building the next day’

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6 d. ago ‘New future achievable’ at Grangemouth as two firms plan job creation

Scottish Energy Secretary Gillian Martin said projects by MiAlgae and Celtic Renewables could create 460 jobs in the coming years.

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6 d. ago Leading academic takes aim at Scottish Government education statistics as 'deeply flawed'

Professor Lindsay Paterson has dismantled Scottish Government education statistics calling them “deeply flawed”

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7 d. ago North Lanarkshire Council leader calls for Scottish Government to provide additional funding to plug £34.639m budget gap

Councillor Jim Logue responded to COSLA’s budget campaign by calling for increased financing to address escalating demand pressures.

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7 d. ago Poverty experts slam government's 'concerning' response to £1.3m Minimum Income Guarantee report

Insiders said the Scottish Government commissioned a Minimum Guarantee Report without the appetite to implement it

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9 d. ago ‘Don’t pander to the tech giants!’ How a youth movement for digital justice is spreading across Europe

Gen z are the first generation to have grown up with social media, they were the earliest adopters, and therefore the first to suffer its harms. Now they are fighting backLate one night in April 2020, towards the start of the Covid lockdowns, Shanley Clémot McLaren was scrolling on her phone when she noticed a Snapchat post by her 16-year-old sister. “She’s basically filming herself from her bed, and she’s like: ‘Guys you shouldn’t be doing this. These fisha accounts are really not OK. Girls, please protect yourselves.’ And I’m like: ‘What is fisha?’ I was 21, but I felt old,” she says.She went into her sister’s bedroom, where her sibling showed her a Snapchat account named “fisha” plus the code of their Paris suburb. Fisha is French slang for publicly shaming someone – from the verb “afficher”, meaning to display or make public. The account contained intimate images of girls from her sister’s school and dozens of others, “along with the personal data of the victims – their names, p...

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