Alex Salmond says Alba Party is 'here to stay' despite failing to win any MSPs at Holyrood election

The One Show's Alex Jones has revealed the one guest who left her particularly star-struck on the show. On last night's (May 24) episode, Alex and co-presenter Jermaine Jenas were discussing which celebrities had left them a bit overwhelmed with guests Angela Scanlon and Nicky Campbell.

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The One Show's Alex Jones has revealed the one guest who left her particularly star-struck on the show. On last night's (May 24) episode, Alex and co-presenter Jermaine Jenas were discussing which celebrities had left them a bit overwhelmed with guests Angela Scanlon and Nicky Campbell.

First Minister said there would be a “number of reasons” for figures showing around half the coronavirus vaccine appointments at Glasgow’s SSE Hydro vaccination centre this weekend were missed.There were many cancellations and non-attendances on Saturday and Sunday amid rising case numbers in the city which remains at level three lockdown.Speaking at the Scottish government covid briefing on Tuesday the First Minister urged young people in the 18-29 cohort to make sure they registered for their

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mickey out of Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross in her latest voiceover. Janey who has been a huge hit with her funny voiceovers of First Minister Nicola Sturgeon throughout the Coronavirus crisis, decided to pick on someone else for a change.

Join thousands of others and get the latest Scottish politics news sent straight to your inbox.Nicola Sturgeon has announced that the city of Glasgow will remain in level three for another week after a spike in covid infection cases.She said there is evidence suggesting the outbreak, concentrated in the south side of the city, is being driven by so-called Indian variant.Glasgow, like most of the country, was due to go to level 2 on Monday.Going to this level would have meant pubs being able to

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.

Perth and Kinross SNP councillor has revealed he believes “now is not the time” for an independence vote. Strathallan representative Tom Gray made the admission following the results of last week’s Scottish Parliament elections.His thoughts came after First Minister Nicola Sturgeon told Prime Minister Boris Johnson it was a matter of when, not if, for indyref2.

First Minister said that case numbers in North East region taking in Forres, Elgin, Lossiemouth and Buckie, are more than four times higher than in the rest of the country which is due to move to Level 2 on Monday.

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”.

64 MSPs in the 129-seat parliament which is one short of a majority however with the eight Scottish Greens elected there is a majority of independence parties. Sturgeon said her priority following the election would be to focus on Scotland's recovery from the devastating coronavirus pandemic.

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.

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

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

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.