Bin strikes called for 15 Scottish council areas as refuse workers set to walk out over pay

Waste and cleansing services in Edinburgh are to resume after nearly two weeks of industrial action.

Talks aimed at ending a council worker strike that has seen rubbish pile up in Scottish streets are continuing amid warnings over the impact on public health. Bosses at Public Health Scotland have told local authorities the “decontamination of public areas where bins have overflowed may be required”.

A trade union leader has savaged the Scottish Government over its role in the dispute over council workers' pay.

John Swinney has said "intense dialogue" needs to take place between unions and Cosla to end the current bin strikes across Scotland.

Deputy First Minister John Swinney is to hold an urgent meeting today with council bosses in a bid to stop national bin strikes by helping reach a pay deal.

A union chief has hit out at the Scottish Government for slashing local authorities funding for 12 years as bin workers across the country hit the picket line to strike.

Scottish filmmakers Will Anderson and Ainslie Henderson clinched the Powell And Pressburger Award for best film, the new main competition award at the Edinburgh Film Festival, with their debut feature A Cat Called Dom.

School and nursery staff are set to walk out in nine local authorities next month as unions have rejected a five percent pay offer.

A councillor has said he was threatened with violence after asking someone to move their car.

Council workers in West Dunbartonshire are considering a better pay rise offer from the Scottish Government - with West Dunbartonshire Council saying they ‘desperately’ need funding from the Scottish Government to manage the proposed improved offer.

A wheelchair-bound Scots mum says she has been left suicidal after being forced to ‘bum shuffle’ around just two rooms in her home due to inadequate council housing. Danielle MacArthur woke up to discover both her legs were suddenly paralysed in October 2019 before later being diagnosed with Functional Neurological Disorder.

More than three-quarters of doctors who took part in a recent survey have said they are prepared to strike in a pay dispute. The study, undertaken by BMA Scotland, spoke to 3,100 medics north of the border between July 20 and August 5 after a 4.5% offer was rejected.

Anas Sarwar will today call for an emergency rent freeze to be implemented as soon as MSPs return from their summer break next month.

The leader of Falkirk Council has said she is disappointed in the offer that was made to council workers on Friday at a special meeting of COSLA.

After nearly a week of sunny weather and blue skies, Scotland is set for another long day of thunderstorms.

The Scottish Conservatives have labelled comedian Jerry Sadowitz “abhorrent” after an alleged on-stage racial slur about leadership candidate Rishi Sunak. It’s claimed Glasgow comic Sadowitz referred to Sunak as a “p***” in a gag, and also exposed himself to a female member of the audience during a performance at the Edinburgh Fringe on Friday.

A 64-year-old man from Perth was spotted downing vodka before driving away from the store he bought it from.

A new operator is set to take over the running of a school bus route which was the scene of a dramatic fire at Port of Menteith in June.

A plan to build glamping pods in the heart of Burns country has sparked an uprising from residents.

A memorial is to be held for missing Scots RAF gunner Corrie McKeague at his former base today, his family has said.