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Irvine Welsh hopes musical will return after UK tour axed over costs

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Andy Burnham pulls out of Edinburgh Festival Fringe show

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Surge in protests costs Police Scotland more than £1m in overtime

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Eye-watering sum Edinburgh's festivals are now worth to Scots economy

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Exclusive Lothian Buses urged to rethink change to night bus service

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Salmond memorial service to be held at St Giles' on St Andrew's Day

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Purchase of Jaguar ‘investigated as part of SNP police probe’

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Breaking 'Sick of the lies': Michelle Mone breaks silence on covid PPE scandal

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Pupils from two Edinburgh schools to take part in Alex Salmond's Fringe show

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Fire safety remedial work at new Edinburgh Sick Kids 'to start next year'

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Rachel Reeves accuses Nicola Sturgeon of sounding 'tin-eared' on council strikes

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Nicola Sturgeon: Liz Truss asked me how to get into Vogue magazine

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Edinburgh waste and street cleaning workers to strike over festival

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Edinburgh to become Scotland's first short-term lets control zone

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Museum bosses seek help in unearthing details about 1,500 skeletal remains

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Sturgeon in swipe at 'democratic deficit' as she launches another indyref2 paper

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Nicola Sturgeon set for court battle as she unveils proposed date for indyref2

Nicola Sturgeon has unveiled a proposed date for a second independence referendum as she prepares for a constitutional showdown in the courts.

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Members of slave trade legacy group 'fear for safety' if identities made public

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SNP MP cleared of sexual misconduct on appeal after 'flawed' investigation

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Sturgeon under fire as councils hit out amid industrial action threat

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Ministers urged to intervene over 'disgraceful' delays to Edinburgh tram inquiry

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Train drivers offered improved pay deal in bid to end ScotRail crisis

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Female councillors 'literally cannot afford' childcare due to poor pay

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Less than a third want independence referendum next year, poll suggests

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Nicola Sturgeon denies care home Covid transfers in Scotland were 'unlawful'

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Almost 100,000 children in Scotland on social housing waiting list

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SNP pledges to restrict private rents in Edinburgh if returned to power

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SNP pledge to push ahead with tram extensions if returned to power in Edinburgh

SNP councillors have pledged to push ahead with tram extensions to the north and south of Edinburgh if they are returned to power in the local elections next month.

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Labour MSP demands emergency Scotland-wide rent freeze

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SNP council candidate dismissed account of racism as 'a load of s***'

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Concerns over closure of 140 police stations in Scotland since 2013

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UK ministers rule out energy rationing amid fallout from invasion of Ukraine

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SNP urged to lower fares and increase services now ScotRail is nationalised

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CalMac ferries fiasco: Former minister Derek Mackay offers to be quizzed by MSPs

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Headteachers to receive half a billion pounds to help close attainment gap

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Unions warn of 'huge period of unrest' as strike ballots loom

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Scottish Child Payment to increase to £25 a week by end of 2022

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Fireworks crackdown 'risks being undermined by bad legislation'

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Councils face 'significant' challenges amid SNP funding cuts, finds watchdog

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Controversial gender reform legislation published by Scottish Government

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Scotland's NHS 'financially unsustainable and under severe pressure'

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SNP ministers deny workplace parking charges amount to ‘tax on workers’

Concerns have been raised about the impact of the workplace parking levy. Picture: Jason Chadwickplaceholder image

Business leaders call for workplace parking levy to be scrapped

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SNP MSP apologises for suggesting abuse suffered by Sarah Smith was ‘imaginary’

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Three-quarters of Scots households to receive £150 cost of living support

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SNP say opponents ‘misrepresenting’ proposal to chop bottom of school doors

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Scottish Tories call for shift away from blanket Covid measures in new roadmap

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