SCOTS pupils will still have to face high-stakes exams at National 5 after the SNP education secretary rejected calls from ...

SNP ministers have been forced to suspend a controversial ban on installing woodburning stoves in new homes after a huge ...

John Swinney has been dealt a blow to his authority after suffering two “humiliating” defeats in Holyrood over cuts to public ...

John Swinney says ‘I was criticised in 2007 for wanting to divert money from the Edinburgh tram project to the A9… parliament ...

JOHN Swinney has been left embarrassed by rivals after suffering a double defeat for his government at the Scottish Parliament. The First Minister lost back-to-back votes brought forward by the ...

SallyAnn Kelly runs the acclaimed Aberlour Children’s Charity. She talks to our Writer at Large about the failures of the Scottish government ...

It gave the old city an appropriately spooky and uncertain atmosphere. Scotland was waiting, poised, tentatively wondering ...

In 10 years, Scottish independence has achieved precisely nothing. Today marks a decade since the referendum. In that time we ...

LABOUR have threatened to claw back millions from Scottish communities promised “levelling up” money. Scottish Secretary Ian ...

The Scottish SNP government announced in August that it would reintroduce ... short of the 10 per cent it claimed was ...

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The party leader's speech comes after he warned the government had to "invest more in the NHS or accept continued decline".