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Alex Salmond accuser claims the ex-first minister’s political resurgence has left his wife “incapacitated by depression”.Referred to as “Woman F” during Salmond’s criminal trial, she received an apology from him for inappropriate behaviour in 2013.Salmond was cleared of all criminal charges at his trial and a not proven verdict was delivered over an allegation of assault with intent to rape Woman F.At the trial, Salmond admitted the woman’s complaint relating to an incident at the first
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Scottish Parliament with the former First Minister being the most high profile. Since launching the party at the end of March two SNP MPs have defected as well as a number of local councillors.
Good Morning Britain presenter Alex Beresford has defended Prince Harry after his latest comments on the Royal family.
new piece for NBC News’ Know Your Value vertical.A source with knowledge of the situation said Thursday “there are no plans” to reinstate McCammond’s full position at the network, where she was a contributor before being named editor in chief of Teen Vogue in March.
Alba Party leader - who failed to win a seat at last week's Holyrood election - warned that any delay would allow the UK Government time to plan its response. He told the BBC the time to press for an IndyRef2 would be “now” and added he was “not in favour of this idea you should delay to after covid, to after the recovery, towards the end of the second part of this parliamentary term”.
former SNP leader only launched the breakaway pro-independence movement last week and succeeded in persuading two MPs and several serving councillors to quit the Nationalists to join him. Salmond tried to persuade SNP voters to back Nicola Sturgeon in constituencies and lend his new party their support on the list vote in an attempt to create what he termed a pro-independence "supermajority" of MSPs.
candidates. Yesterday, Salmond predicted he would "fall short" of winning a seat with his new party due to a number of factors including the short time from launching the party to polling day and the lack of TV coverage for Alba.
The Former First Minister is standing for his new Alba party on the North East Scotland regional list. The pro-independence party has put up 32 candidates across the country in a bid to create a "super-majority" for 'yes' in the Holyrood chamber.
jail a former diplomat who was found to be in contempt of court after covering the Alex Salmond trial on his blog.Craig Murray, a former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan, attended two days of Mr Salmond's trial in March 2020, sitting in the public gallery, and wrote about it on his website.The former first minister was cleared at the High Court in Edinburgh of 13 sexual assault charges involving nine women following his trial.Following previous hearings, judges on March 25 this year found that
Roughly six months after longtime "Jeopardy!" host Alex Trebek died, an executive producer on the show is speaking out about the process of finding his replacement. Trebek died in November of 2020 at age 80 after a lengthy and public battle with stage 4 pancreatic cancer.The late star made good on his promise to continue hosting the show as long as he could, with a handful of episodes in which he hosted continuing to debut after his death.
SNP leader today pushed back against a comment reported in an American magazine in which he was quoted as saying he could have "destroyed" Sturgeon's caree r if he had wanted to. Salmond insisted his words were "totally taken out of context" - and said they were a reference to his appearance before a cross-party committee of MSPs in February where he was asked to call for the First Minister's resignation and refused to do so.
BBC One Scotland and the BBC News Channel for the fourth and final time of the election campaign tonight. Nicola Sturgeon (SNP), Douglas Ross (Scottish Conservatives), Anas Sarwar (Labour), Willie Rennie (Lib Dems) and Patrick Harvie (Scottish Greens) will all face questions from BBC Scotland Political Editor Glenn Campbell on the show which kicks off at 7.50pm.
Alba’ s position was for Scotland to pay no share of the UK national debt if independence is achieved. When Salmond was first minister, the SNP Government explicitly said Scotland would agree a share of the national debt as part of an independence settlement.In an interview with the Record, Salmond said the previous position had been based on a currency union with the rest of the UK.
© @Copyright HELLO! Hello! Magazine Alex Jones has shared an emotional post - something many parents will be able to relate to!Taking to her Instagram Stories on Friday morning, the One Show host shared a snap from her hotel bath and revealed that her children were "upset" after waking up to see she wasn't at home.
Alba Party instead.The councillor for the Maryhill ward is a former business manager for the SNP administration on the council.Letford will appear alongside Alex Salmond when the former first minister hosts a campaign session in Glasgow tonight as the election campaign enters its final week.He said: “I have left the SNP and joined the Alba Party because I want to work towards achieving Scottish independence.