Politics

ROADS chiefs have given “absolute assurances” that Lothian Buses will play a key role in shaping a 10-year strategy to overhaul the Capital’s transport network.

Boris Johnson is at it when he claims the decision to prorogue parliament is simply to allow a new Queen’s Speech. Dogs in the street know that, says Tommy Sheppard.

The scandal surrounding the construction of the new Sick Kids hospital in Edinburgh has come to symbolise this SNP Government’s incompetence and mismanagement of our Scottish NHS, writes Miles Briggs.

A senior city councillor will hold city chiefs to account on their lacklustre approach to sport accessibility in the Capital.

WASTE chiefs have stressed that Scottish Government proposals for a bottle deposit scheme will help clean up the Capital’s street – despite a warning it could lead to more expensive contracts and recycling rates to fall.

It is one of the strange anomalies of the council’s plans for a tourist tax that visitors staying in a relatively cheap B&B would pay the levy while someone driving a road-hogging, gas-guzzling camper van to Mortonhall would not, so it’s only right that such exemptions be examined in the consultation which will accompany the Scottish Government’s plans for legislation.

NEW figures today revealed that 86 people died in Lothian hospitals in 2018/19 while waiting to be discharged, the highest number in Scotland.

The Conservative Party is actually an alliance of at least three distinct groups, which are artificially forced together by our first-past-the-post election system, writes Alex Cole-Hamilton.

Edinburgh’s SNP-Labour council coalition has embraced a radical plan that would effectively eliminate all cars from the city centre, apart from those belonging to residents, writes John McLellan.

COUNCIL chiefs will draw up an action plan for tour buses and coaches as part of ambitious plans to overhaul transport in the city centre.