33 h. ago SNP under fire for A&E 'meltdown' after after 'atrocious' waiting statistics revealed

Despite the SNP vowing toe end all waits of more than a year by March, 44,363 patients had been waiting more than 52 weeks in November.

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33 h. ago SNP under fire for A&E 'meltdown' after 'atrocious' waiting statistics revealed

Despite the SNP vowing toe end all waits of more than a year by March, 44,363 patients had been waiting more than 52 weeks in November.

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35 h. ago West Lothian Labour candidates and Livingston MP praise Anas Sarwar's New Year speech

With four months to go until polling day, Mr Sarwar described the election as a decisive moment for Scotland, arguing voters face a clear choice between a third decade of SNP government under John Swinney or new leadership with Scottish Labour.

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39 h. ago 'Crippling' workload of teachers in Scottish schools must be reduced, union warns

Scotland’s largest teaching union continues to caution the government over its failure to address a key SNP manifesto pledge on classroom hours

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52 h. ago US traders make big profits betting on Maduro’s capture in January

Arrest of Venezuelan president appears to have been anticipated on ‘prediction markets’ where people bet on future events Gamblers appear to have made large profits after successfully betting on the capture of Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro.Ahead of Donald Trump’s shock announcement on Saturday morning, traders seemed to have anticipated Maduro’s political demise by placing timely wagers on so-called “prediction markets”. Continue reading...

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57 h. ago ‘Underdog’ Sarwar challenges First Minister to series of election debates

The Scottish Labour leader issued the challenge as he said his party will spend a £1 million plus election fund as part of its bid to win power.

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63 h. ago Labour to plead Holyrood election not referendum on Keir Starmer's government as SNP's record on line

Anas Sarwar and John Swinney will give keynote speeches to kick off this year’s Holyrood election campaign.

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63 h. ago Scotland's school attendance 'in crisis' after thousands of pupils miss lessons

Thousands of pupils in Scotland have not attended school at all in the last six years.

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4 d. ago Saudi invites Yemen’s southern factions to ‘dialogue’ in Riyadh after surprise independence bid

Southern Transitional Council wants to form a breakaway state, which would split the Arabian Peninsula’s poorest state in twoSaudi Arabia’s foreign ministry has called for Yemen’s southern factions to attend a “dialogue” in Riyadh, after a surprise independence bid and the United Arab Emirates declaring it had withdrawn all troops from Yemen.In a statement on Saturday, the Saudi ministry urged “a comprehensive conference in Riyadh to bring together all southern factions to discuss just solutions to the southern cause”. Riyadh said the Yemeni government had issued the invitation for talks. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Never a more important time to be a unionist or conservative, says Findlay

The Scottish Conservative leader attacked Reform UK’s unionist credentials.

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5 d. ago Revealed: The new clothing rules to follow when flying after officials beg passengers to 'bring civility back'

While people should be able to wear what they feel comfortable in, officials have urged passengers to 'bring civility' back to flying. And naturally, this includes wearing trousers with a waistband.

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5 d. ago ‘I need to help’: Barnsley woman’s rabies death inspires dog

Robyn Thomson immunised thousands of animals in Cambodia after shocking death of her mother this summerIt was just a scratch. Among all the feelings and thoughts that she has had to wrestle with since the summer, disbelief is the emotion that Robyn Thomson still struggles with the most. “You never think it would happen to you,” said Robyn. “You don’t really think it happens to anyone.”Robyn’s mother, Yvonne Ford, had shown no signs of illness in the months after returning from her holiday in Morocco in February. She had spoken highly of the country and its people, and recommended it for future getaways. She had not realised that a seemingly harmless interaction with a puppy while sitting in the sun would cause so much damage. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Thousands living in mouldy homes as SNP accused of leaving Scotland 'to rot'

Lib Dem MP Susan Murray said local authorities and housing associations were skint as a result of SNP Government budget cuts.

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6 d. ago World is in better place than when Eden Project created 25 years ago, founder says

Tim Smit also says extreme political views will fade when people realise good things around the cornerSir Tim Smit says the world is in a better place than it was when he co-founded the Eden Project 25 years ago and he believes people are more attuned to the natural world.Speaking as the project in Cornwall reaches its 25th anniversary, Smit describedextreme political views as the “roar” of people fearful that they cannot control the future but he said they would fade when people realised that good things were around the corner. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago SNP under fire for pressing ahead with 'farcical and fake' landfill ban

Waste can still be dumped at landfill if an exemption is obtained.

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8 d. ago SNP accused of 'making a mess' of Caledonian Sleeper after compensation bill revealed

The Caledonian Sleeper service was nationalised by the SNP government in 2023.

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1 week ago SNP Government urged to bring back £170m apprenticeship fund 'stolen from young people's futures'

Labour MP Gregor Poynton has written to SNP Education Secretary Jenny Gilruth asking her to reverse the decision to use the money “to plug holes elsewhere in the Scottish Government budget”.

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1 week ago DANIEL HANNAN: If Britain and its young people are to have a future, we must grow up and throw off the comfort blanket of state regulation that's suffocated us since lockdown

DANIEL HANNAN: I'm afraid the disaster of lockdown - or, more precisely, the public clamour for lockdown - has knocked the optimism out of me personally and out of Britain as a whole.

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1 week ago SNP Government blasted over 67 years' of delays to NHS and transport projects

The figures shows the delays faced by patients and passengers to top projects.

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1 week ago The price of ‘ceasefire’ in Gaza: More than 400 people dead in just three months and little hope for the future

When Donald Trump did his victory lap in Israel after announcing a ceasefire last October, he promised ‘peace for all eternity’. But Palestinians tell Alex Croft and Nedal Hamdouna they continue to face a grim daily reality of violence and destruction

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