Craig Meighan

Politics

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.
8 Jun 2026
Politics

MoD accused of ‘callous disregard’ for Chinook families after FOI disclosure

The Chinook Justice Campaign has lodged a formal complaint.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
5 May 2026
Politics

Scottish Greens propose railcard for all

The Scottish Greens have announced plans to introduce a new green commuter railcard.
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.
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’.
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’.
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’.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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’.
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.
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.
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.
30 Apr 2026