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Up to courts to decide if Sturgeon has to give back Murrell gifts, Swinney says
Peter Murrell is set to face legal action to recover the more than £400,000 he embezzled from the SNP.
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Craig Meighan
8 Jun 2026
Politics
MoD accused of ‘callous disregard’ for Chinook families after FOI disclosure
The Chinook Justice Campaign has lodged a formal complaint.
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Craig Meighan
11 May 2026
Politics
Reform UK Scotland MSPs elect leader and deputy leader
The party’s Holyrood group confirmed Thomas Kerr as its deputy while it also backed Malcom Offord, who had been selected by Nigel Farage, as leader.
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Craig Meighan
9 May 2026
Politics
Swinney: My family deeply unsettled by anti-immigration protest in constituency
The First Minister said the anti-immigration protest had caused ‘enormous distress’ to his constituents.
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Craig Meighan
9 May 2026
Politics
Malcolm Offord: I’m in this to be first minister
The Reform UK Scotland leader said he is ‘confident’ his party will have a good result at the Holyrood election.
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Craig Meighan
8 May 2026
Politics
Labour can ‘make history’ and ‘pull off a surprise’, Sarwar says on election eve
The Scottish Labour leader said his party would reject Reform, beat the SNP and deliver change.
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Craig Meighan
6 May 2026
Politics
Greens only party telling truth on need to stop oil and gas drilling – Mackay
The party’s co-leader said politicians had to be ‘honest’ with voters that more fossil fuel extraction would ‘do nothing’ to lower bills.
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Craig Meighan
6 May 2026
Politics
Reform ‘a bunch of cranks and rejects’, Sarwar says
The Scottish Labour leader accused the party of not being serious about its plans to build migrant detention centres only in Green constituencies.
By
Craig Meighan
5 May 2026
Politics
Scottish Greens propose railcard for all
The Scottish Greens have announced plans to introduce a new green commuter railcard.
By
Craig Meighan
4 May 2026
Politics
Scottish Tory leader Russell Findlay says he will not lose his seat at election
Mr Findlay said he did not agree with analysis from Sir John Curtice that he could lose his seat if his candidate for the Eastwood constituency wins.
By
Craig Meighan
3 May 2026
Politics
Scotland has suffered nearly 7,000 days of failure under SNP, Findlay says
The Scottish Tory leader accused John Swinney’s party of having a ‘reverse Midas touch’.
By
Craig Meighan
3 May 2026
Politics
I don’t blame my political opponents for my attack, Reform candidate says
Thomas Kerr said he was ‘very shaken up’ after the alleged assault and called for his opponents to ‘tone it down’.
By
Craig Meighan
2 May 2026
Politics
Sarwar vows to give NHS waiting lists ‘the chop’ as he visits karate dojo
The Scottish Labour leader said the NHS ‘is not safe with John Swinney and the SNP’.
By
Craig Meighan
2 May 2026
Politics
£25,000 reward offered to find stolen historic Glasgow artefact
The Lipton Cup, reportedly worth nearly £500,000, was stolen from the Riverside Museum last year.
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Craig Meighan
1 May 2026
Politics
John Swinney convenes security meeting after terror threat level raised
The national threat level was raised following the incident in Golders Green.
By
Craig Meighan
1 May 2026
Politics
Offord: ‘Racist’ used too loosely and is too accusatory
The Reform UK Scotland leader said Scots were raising legitimate concerns about fairness.
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Craig Meighan
1 May 2026
Politics
Voting SNP could bring independence and lower energy bills, says Swinney
The SNP leader said Scotland’s energy was its ‘superpower’ as he urged voters to back him with less than a week to go before polling day.
By
Craig Meighan
1 May 2026
Business News
Trump to remove Scottish whisky tariffs after King and Queen’s US visit
The US president said the royals ‘got me to do something that nobody else was able to do’.
By
Craig Meighan
30 Apr 2026
UK
George Clooney given Scotland kit during Gleneagles lunch with prize draw winner
Claire Phale had lunch with Clooney after winning a prize draw with Itison in support of Scottish homelessness charity Social Bite.
By
Craig Meighan
30 Apr 2026
Politics
SNP majority would stop Farage at the border, Swinney says
The First Minister said an SNP majority would lock Reform UK out of power in Scotland.
By
Craig Meighan
30 Apr 2026
Politics
Lib Dems pledge to put defence at heart of industrial and skills strategy
Alex Cole-Hamilton made the pledge ahead of a visit to Babcock’s site in Rosyth.
By
Craig Meighan
30 Apr 2026
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