The SNP are the problem, not the solution
A row between a Scottish tycoon and the SNP boiled over last night with claims that finance secretary Derek Mackay had a foul-mouthed outburst about the executives of a government-owned ferry operator.
THE Scots fishing industry is facing a Brexit crisis because the Scottish Government has failed to prepare, the Tories warned last night.
Scotland is in the grip of a “wave” of violent and sexual crime, it has been claimed after official figures showed a sharp increase in both last year.
A crisis-hit hospital in Edinburgh has cabling flaws that could trigger a fire, according to emails from the local health board to the SNP Government.
SCOTLAND’S crisis-hit ‘super-hospital’ was allowed to open even after its ventilation system failed to meet safety standards.
Outbreaks of infection, which may have spread through the system at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, in Glasgow, have led to the deaths of two patients.
THE company handed a £345million deal to operate ferry services to the Northern Isles should be ‘nowhere near public contracts’, union chiefs said yesterday.
NICOLA Sturgeon has been accused of ‘rewriting history’ after denying the SNP worked with the Tories for four years. When the Nationalists were in minority government in 2007-11, they sought Conservative support to pass their Budgets.
Blow for Nicola Sturgeon as poll finds 59 per cent of Scots want to stay in the UK – and only a THIRD want a fresh independence referendum soon
SCOTLAND’S police force is so starved of cash that it is struggling to keep buildings, vehicles and equipment in operation, MSPs have been told.
THE SNP has been accused of ‘compulsive secrecy’ after ministers refused to name more than 200 Scots firms given £135million of taxpayer backed loans.
Unemployment in Scotland has risen by more than 20% to stand at 110,000, new figures have revealed. The latest figures, covering the period May to July, showed an increase of 19,000 in the jobless total – up by 20.6 per cent on the previous three months.
ATTEMPTS to block publication of details of a prisoner’s death were ‘interference in the freedom of the Press’, it was claimed yesterday.
