Politics

COMMUNITIES surrounding closure-listed Redford barracks say they must be given a proper say on future plans for the site before it is too late.

Proposals to build a six-storey block of student flats across the road from Meadowbank Stadium have been backed by council planners.

Developers have resubmitted plans to build four tower blocks overlooking the waterfront in Leith - and the buildings would be taller under the latest proposals.

LORD Provost Frank Ross was today at the centre of a row over allegations he plans to use the City Chambers to promote the interests of a commercial company.

LORD Provost Frank Ross was today at the centre of a row over allegations he plans to use the City Chambers to promote the interests of a commercial company.

Shopping centre bosses have tabled plans to build a new cinema as part of a revamp of the Gyle Centre.

Housing chiefs have been told to ramp up the delivery of affordable homes being built in the Capital amid claims the council will fall short of its target.

Whether you agree with Boris Johnson’s promise to deliver an income tax cut for higher earners, or if he’d thought through the consequences for Scotland, his intervention has sparked a new debate about how much tax Scots should be paying.

THE Scottish Parliament’s top official is quitting after 20 years in the job to take up a new post as principal of Queen Margaret University.

PARENTS in Midlothian are furious about council plans to withdraw their children’s free transport to and from school, leaving them to walk almost three miles each way.

The UK Government is facing calls to take back responsibility for funding free TV licences for the over-75s amid an outcry over plans to strip the concession from millions of pensioners.

A Peace Garden is being dedicated today to the Scotland’s First World War ‘barge sisters’, the nurses who transported seriously wounded soldiers in ‘hospital barges’ along canals in France, Flanders, and later the Nile.

“Youth football is nothing if it’s not about social inclusion. For us, and I’m sure this applies to other clubs too, it’s about bringing boys and girls together from all backgrounds to enjoy sport. To give them a purpose and to keep them active. If they are healthy and focused and learning the core skills of a sport – discipline, organisation, communication, friendship and so on – then they will hopefully be better equipped to avoid some of the obvious distractions that society will put in front of them and more driven when it comes to their education and in the fullness of time, work.”

The revelation that Michael Gove, one of the Tory leadership contenders, used cocaine “on several occasions” is a clear indication that the contest is under way in earnest and is surely only the beginning of what promises to be an exercise peppered with dirty tricks.

A former SNP MP has been freed from prison ahead of her potential appeal against conviction and sentence for her embezzlement conviction.

Scotland and the rest of the UK are "increasingly" on different poltical paths, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said.

Ministers "stand ready to do what we can" to deal with any potential job losses connected to Sir Philip Green's retail empire.

Campaigners have warned that contentious plans for new flats could lead to “an accident waiting to happen” unless the number of homes are reduced and transport concerns are dealt with.