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Local MSP slams Scottish Government on rail price hikes

Craig outside Corn Exchange

Craig Hoy MSP wraps up successful summer surgery tour

Education Secretary Jenny Gilruth celebrates with students at Madras College in St Andrews on SQA results Day 2024. PIC: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

SNP are not up to the job of education - Alex Cole-Hamilton

Scottish Green Party co-leader Lorna Slater

Through unity we can overcome the politics of division - Lorna Slater

Debbie Lamb, Deputy Home Manager; Willie Rennie, MSP and Olga Jankovska, Home Manager

Rennie visits St Andrews care home

Craig outside North Berwick Branch

Review of last North Berwick bank closure urged

Craig Hoy MSP.

-Craig Hoy MSP challenges TSB's closure of Haddington branch

Jenni Minto (centre) visiting a Health Walk at Gyle Park

Ageing Well Walks praised for supporting older adults

Left to right- Gordon Symon, Craig Hoy, Lewis Foster (President of North Berwick Rotary Club)

Craig Hoy MSP Delighted to Judge Classic Car Tour

First Minister Humza Yousaf at the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh

We need more than just a First Minister, we need a change in government - Alex ...

The late Professor Peter Higgs poses for photographs in front of a statue of James Watt, after receiving an honorary degree from Heriot-Watt University in 2012 (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

The truly gifted Peter Higgs - Angus Robertson

The Scottish public are “about 50/50” on ending a ban on drinking on the country’s publicly owned rail service, MSPs have heard. Photo: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

Public ‘about 50/50’ on ending ScotRail alcohol ban

Rachael Hamilton MSP (centre) with park owner Adam Gregg and Sarah Allanson from the British Holiday and Home Parks Association

MSP flies flag for Scottish tourism at pioneering holiday park

A recent study found that the most common symptoms of long Covid include loss of smell, shortness of breath and chest pain, amnesia, an inability to perform familiar movements or commands, and hallucinations

Scottish Government isn’t listening to pleas for long Covid help - Susan Dalgety

Dreadnought Leith.

Leith pub in National Pub Awards final

Minister for Green Skills, Circular Economy and Biodiversity, Lorna Slater

Our climate is bigger than any political party - Lorna Slater
It's easy to assume politicians love arguing with each other. Elections and debates are presented as adversarial but, while there's definitely a place for robust disagreement, our politics is at its best when we work together.
Lorna Slater

Foysol Choudhury MSP

Investing in skilled labour is vital to our future - Foysol Choudhury

Keep Edinburgh Eye Pavilion campaigners

SNP should come clean about NHS building projects - Alex Cole-Hamilton

Nicola Sturgeon at the podium in 2020 for a Covid briefing (Picture: Jane Barlow/WPA Pool/Getty Images)

What’sApp deletion could be scandal of the century - Alex Cole-Hamilton

LifeCare supporters were treated to festive cheer over three days at CafeLife

Lifecare is in safe hands - Angus Robertson

Schools in Edinburgh and the Lothians were allocated 71 fewer probationary teachers than requested by councils. Picture: Sean Bell.

Schools 'short-changed' over probationary teacher numbers

Liam McArthur is bringing forward a Bill to legalise assisted dying in Scotland

Death would be much easier to deal with if we had some control over how we died...

Patients were told the spending review, to be concluded ahead of the Budget, would provide clarity on the funding and timescales of Edinburgh's promised new eye hospital - but now there is a two-year block on any new building projects.

Matheson ‘misled’ patients over eye hospital

Fringe Society chief executive Shona McCarthy.

Art of friendship at Christmas - Angus Robertson

Minister for Green Skills, Circular Economy and Biodiversity, Lorna Slater

Scotland can lead the transition to a renewable future - Lorna Slater

More than half of Edinburgh schools said the problem of violence and abuse from parents towards teachers was getting worse. Picture: Kenny Smith.

Teachers face violence and abuse – from parents

Colin Beattie visits Springfield Bank care home.

MSP visits care homes
HC-One’s Springfield Bank in Bonnyrigg, Midlothian and Drummohr in Musselburgh, East Lothian, were visited recently by Colin Beattie, MSP for Midlothian North and Musselburgh, as the homes participated in UK Parliament Week activities from November 6 to 12.
Morag Kuc

Jeremy Balfour says the situation is ‘deeply concerning’.

MSP's concern on failure to inspect hopsitals

Those roaming charges can certainly prove an expensive business - Susan Dalgety

Miles Briggs MSP is calling for a crackdown on graffiti

Calls for crackdown on graffiti as 'wannabe Banksys' trashing Capital

Drone footage of the riots in Niddrie. Picture: Press Association.

Community policing hasn’t failed, they just need resources - John McLellan

Humza Yousaf says he is confident the new payments system will encourage dentists to stay in the NHS. Picture: PA.

'New payment system will help keep dentists in NHS'

Edinburgh Eastern MSP Ash Regan says she could no longer fulfil her pro-independence mandate as part of the SNP. Picture: Lisa Ferguson.

‘SNP indy change made me defect’ says Alba's first MSP

Ash Regan was elected SNP MSP for Edinburgh Eastern in 2016. Picture: Lisa Ferguson.

Ash Regan quits SNP to join Salmond’s Alba party

Joan McAlpine is a former chair of the Scottish Parliament's culture committee. Picture: John Devlin

Former SNP MSP accuses Scottish Government of ‘eroding’ the arts

In Edinburgh the council is doing little to encourage expansion of electric vehicle charging points beyond the 312 available now

Council doing virtually zero about reaching net zero - Sue Webber

Well intentioned ageism is alive and well

Well intentioned ageism is alive and well - Christine Grahame

Jeremy Balfour MSP, alongside his local optometrist and Daniel Meikle from RNIB.

MSP backing National Eye Health Week

Midlothian South MSP Christine Grahame.

Welcome for steps to support rural communities

Minister for Green Skills, Circular Economy and Biodiversity, Lorna Slater

An independent Scotland in the EU could thrive - Lorna Slater

Victims may feel they run the risk of being stigmatised

We need to talk about ‘stealthing’ - Alex Cole-Hamilton

The 2023 Green Home Festival aims to build on the success of last year's inaugural event.

Green Home Festival to return to the Fringe

Sue Webber is a Scottish Conservative MSP for the Lothians

Persecuting short term let owners won't solve housing shortage - Sue Webber

Edinburgh's new Sick Kids Hospital at Little France - over 300 children's operations in Lothian have been cancelled since 2019. Picture: Scott Louden.

Over 300 children's operations cancelled in Lothian

The late Winnie Ewing always spoke eloquently and with passion of and for Scotland, says Christine Grahame

We have travelled far on the path to independence - Christine Grahame

Scottish Conservative MSPs tabled a motion of no confidence against Lorna Slater last week. MSPs in Parliament voted down the motion by 68 votes to 55

Scottish Greens will continue to deliver change that is needed here in Scotland ...

Cameron Roy Marchand Buchanan was a Scottish Conservative politician who served as a Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Lothian region from 2013 to 2016

Tributes paid to former local Conservative politician

The tramline from the city centre, down Leith Walk and on to Newhaven began running passenger services on June 7.

Council seeks talks with new Transport Minister

Lorna Slater is the minister for green skills, circular economy and biodiversity

Extending rent cap will bring families stability - Lorna Slater

Storries on Leith Walk has had its late licence since 1999.

Late night bakery fights to retain its licence

The Edinburgh Evening News has been reporting on the city's affairs for 150 years (Picture: Lisa Ferguson)

In an age of fake news and disinformation, good journalism matters

These are the constituencies proposed by Boundaries Scotland: 12) Bathgate and Almond Valley; 32) Edinburgh Forth and Linlithgow; 57) Livingston; 34) Edinburgh Pentlands; 36) Edinburgh Western; 33) Edinburgh Northern and Leith; 30) Edinburgh Central; 35) Edinburgh Southern; 31) Edinburgh Eastern; 60) Midlothian South; 59) Midlothian North and Musselburgh; 29) East Lothian.

Redrawn Scottish Parliament constituency boundaries need a rethink

Tories say the new figures on short-term let applications show Edinburgh hosts are giving up because of the licensing system. Picture: Lisa Ferguson.

Licensing system deterring Airbnb-style lets, claim Tories

These are the constituencies proposed by Boundaries Scotland: 12) Bathgate and Almond Valley; 32) Edinburgh Forth and Linlithgow; 57) Livingston; 34) Edinburgh Pentlands; 36) Edinburgh Western; 33) Edinburgh Northern and Leith; 30) Edinburgh Central; 35) Edinburgh Southern; 31) Edinburgh Eastern; 60) Midlothian South; 59) Midlothian North and Musselburgh; 29) East Lothian.

Lothian to get an extra MSP as boundary changes announced

Robin Harper, Scotland's first Green parliamentarian, celebrates with Mark Ballard, who had just been elected as the party's second MSP for Lothian alongside Mr Harper.
The Greens made other gains across Scotland, increasing their total representation in the Scottish Parliament from two to seven.
Mr Harper served as co-convener of the party until 2008 and remained an MSP until steping down at the 2011 election. Mr Ballard served only one term before leaving the parliament in 2007.

Scottish Parliament elections 2003 - Meadowbank Count.The Greens' Robin Harper (l) and Mark Ballard salute their victories as list MSPs for the Lothians.Pic.... Neil Hanna

Scottish Parliament elections 2003 - Meadowbank Count.
The Greens' Robin Harper (l) and Mark Ballard salute their victories as list MSPs for the Lothians.
Pic.... Neil Hanna

Looking back at Scotland's 2003 'rainbow parliament' election in 13 pictures