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Critical academic report highlights SNP health shortfalls - Sue Webber

Sir Keir Starmer is confronting a huge financial deficit

Our country is broken and we must fix it - Ian Murray

Nicola Sturgeon and John Swinney during the 2014 indy campaign

After 10 years Scotland has chance to move on - Alex Cole-Hamilton

Scottish Green Party co-leader Lorna Slater

The SNP is backing away from a green vision for Scotland - Lorna Slater

John Swinney unveils his inaugural Programme for Government at Scottish Parliament. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell

Programme for Government of continuing failure - Sue Webber

First Minister John Swinney reacts as Finance Secretary Shona Robison gives a Scottish Government pre-budget fiscal update in the Scottish Parliament on Tuesday. Picture: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire

SNP still peddling myth of easy money before and after independence - John McLel...

Finance Secretary Shona Robison gives a Scottish Government Pre-Budget Fiscal Update at Holyrood on Tuesday, September 3. Picture: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire.

Chickens come home to roost for the SNP - Alex Cole-Hamilton

First Minister John Swinney is due to deliver his Programme for Government this week.

Green transition is an opportunity for economic growth - Lorna Slater

First Minister John Swinney delivers his address at the SNP annual national conference at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre. Picture: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

Blame game as MSPs return from recess to bleak financial outlook Ian Swanson

First Minister John Swinney delivers his address at the SNP annual national conference at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre. Picture: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

Blame game as MSPs return from recess to bleak financial outlook

'SNP must re-root itself in priorities of Scottish people'

- John McLellan

TV presenter and comedian Sue Perkins hands out flyers for her stand-up show 'Sue Perkins: A Piece of Work in Progress' outside the Pleasance

SNP's culture cuts risk damaging so much - Alex Cole-Hamilton

National World

Local MSP slams Scottish Government on rail price hikes

Scottish Green Party co-leader Lorna Slater

Rail fare hikes are bad news for people and planet - Lorna Slater

Councillor Simita Kumar is leader of the SNP group on Edinburgh City Council

Simita Kumar: Tourist Tax - lifeline or missed opportunity?

On Thursday Edinburgh’s councillors made a unanimous decision to introduce a ‘transient visitor levy,’ commonly known as the tourist tax. This decision marks a historic moment.

Simita Kumar

A consumption room, which policy leaders hope will help address the issue of drug deaths. Picture: John Devlin

Neil Gray has wandered off the right course on drug addiction - Sue Webber

There is no point simply saying the answer is more public investment in housing when neither the UK nor Scottish Governments have money to invest

Proposed Housing Bill rent controls are a barrier to building - John McLellan

The peak fares suspension on ScotRail services has been axed. Picture: Peter Summers/Getty Images

Cheaper train fares hit the buffers - John McLellan

A Palestinian child boy in the ruins of a building in Gaza City that was hit by a rocket

Stop arms sales to Israel, ceasefire now - Christine Grahame

Daniela Grudsky met Angus Robertson in Edinburgh

SNP faces difficult conference amid row over Israeli meeting

Councillor Susan Rae

Civic pride comes from strength of communities - Susan Rae

Finance secretary Shona Robison. Picture: Andrew Cowan - Pool/Getty Images

We know who to blame for public spending freeze - Sue Webber

First Minister John Swinney and finance secretary Shona Robison. Picture: Lisa Ferguson/National World

Spending figures show Scottish Government is running on empty - John McLellan

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

Counter-protesters gather in Bolton, Greater Manchester, in response to the far-right protests

Amid this darkness there are signs of hope - Simita Kumar

Scotland’s public finance minister says £100m will need to be found to keep winter fuel payments universal

Keep paying pensioners who need winter fuel funding most - Susan Dalgety

Balancing the books is never easy. I should know, I have spent much of my adult life trying to reduce the overdraft a kindly bank manager in Juniper Green granted me nearly 40 years ago.

Susan Dalgety

The Bank of England must decide whether to cut interest rates

Financial black holes don’t get much darker - Ian Murray

Eamonn Gallagher, 38, of West Lothian, appeared at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Tuesday, April 15 accused of assault to severe injury and danger of life.

Man who stalked former SNP candidate jailed

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer visits a Leyland housing development with Deputy Leader Angela Raynor. Photo: Kelvin Stuttard

Is it Labour, Tory-lite, or even democracy? - Christine ​Grahame

Banning mobile phones won’t stop violence but would be a start in the fightback against disruptive classroom behaviour, says Sue Webber

Schools mobile phone ban not right wing, it’s the right thing - Sue Webber

John Swinney of the SNP and Anas Sarwar of the Labour Party take part in BBC Scotland’s UK general election debate at The University of Glasgow

Changed days indeed as Labour and SNP  swap places in Scotland - Susan Dalgety

Joanna Cherry congratulates Labour's Scott Arthur on replacing her as the MP for Edinburgh South West (Picture: Katielee Arrowsmith/SWNS)

Simita Kumar: The winner takes it all - a turning point for Scotland?

Miles Briggs MSP.

The underfunding of Lothian must stop - Miles Briggs

Arthur’s housing contortions - John McLellan

Edinburgh and Lothians' defeated MPs consider their futures

Flooding on the Edinburgh City Bypass last month. Picture: Dr David Mitchell

Green shoots show through Labour’s red wall - Alys Mumford

Tommy Sheppard campaigning with SNP leader and First Minister John Swinney. Picture: Getty Images

For the SNP now comes a time of reflection - Tommy Sheppard

First Minster John Swinney must honours his promise to visit Baberton Mains, says Sue Webber. Picture: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

Challenge now is to produce compelling centre-right alternative - Sue Webber

Scotland played a key part in Labour’s election victory

Now attention turns to next Holyrood election

Labour's Scott Arthur celebrates as the SNP's Joanna Cherry bows out at the general election count in Edinburgh

Outgoing MP Cherry’s word of warning for new women at Westminster - Susan Dalget...

All the latest updates on the General Election 2024 in Edinburgh

General Election: All the highlights from Edinburgh, the Lothians and beyond

abour leader and incoming Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and wife Victoria enter 10 Downing Street

Watch: Keir Starmer makes first speech as Prime Minister outside No 10

SNP loses all its seats in Edinburgh as Labour sweeps in

Labour defeats SNP MP Joanna Cherry in Edinburgh South West

Labour wins Edinburgh North and Leith from SNP

However the results have fallen Lothian’s constituencies need visible and active local representatives, says Sue Webber

Getting the basics right is vital in politics - Sue Webber

Douglas Alexander has been elected in East Lothian

Labour's Douglas Alexander takes Lothian East from SNP

The exit poll results are in

Exit poll shock as SNP predicted to win just 10 seats

Polls are showing that two of the five seats in Edinburgh are too close to call

After a strange campaign all eyes on the political scrap in Scotland - John McLe...

Is Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar so sure of a resounding victory he’s stopped taking the contest seriously?

Sarwar must be having a laugh - John McLellan

There are few people less influential in the House of Commons than surplus MPs in a big majority governing party, says Angus Robertson

Only SNP MPs will stand up for Scotland in the commons - Angus Robertson

All you need to know about election in Edinburgh North and Leith

All you need to know about the election contest in Livingston

General election 2024: All you need to know about Edinburgh West