Andy Wightman, a well-known campaigner for land reform before entering politics, will now sit as an independent until next year's Holyrood election. In a letter to Greens co-leaders Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater, he said was "saddened by the intolerance shown by some party members to an open and mature dialogue about the tensions and conflicts around questions of sex and gender in the context of transgender rights and women’s rights".
Campaigners demand action as Scottish council stand firm over Irish Catholic sectarian street slur row
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Catholics.Call It Out vowed to take its complaint to the Scottish Government if East Dunbartonshire Council refuses to remove “Taig” from the names in Kirkintilloch, near Glasgow.The Oxford Dictionary lists the word as a “derogatory term for a Catholic or Irish nationalist”.But officials say Taig Road in Waterside was named after Councillor Nathaniel Taig in 1946 and is not an insult.
Neighbouring Taig Gardens was built in the early 2000s.Jeanette Findlay, of Call It Out, set up in 2018 to give
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18.12.2020 / 16:20
Labour look to Kevin McGregor for Scottish Elections success in Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley
Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley seat at next year’s Scottish Elections after clinching the nomination for Labour.
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18.12.2020 / 15:10
Joy as Renfrewshire enjoys property boom higher than Scottish average increase
Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.A flat with influences of Charles Rennie Mackintosh has hit the market as Renfrewshire’s house prices have grown by 6.7 per cent.Registers of Scotland revealed the UK House Prince Index surge has come despite the pandemic.Renfrewshire was above the average Scottish growth of six per cent, while East Renfrewshire rose by exactly six per cent.The figures were taken from October 2019 and October 2020 and means
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17.12.2020 / 22:25
Lesley Roy set to return as Ireland’s Eurovision singer in 2021
One of the disappointing parts of this year was the fact we didn’t get to experience the uplifting Eurovision Song Contest.
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16.12.2020 / 22:49
RuPaul's Drag Race UK has two Scottish queens competing in new season
queens will be battling for the crown of Next Drag Superstar on season two of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK. Lawrence Chaney, from Glasgow and Ellie Diamond, from Dundee, are among the 12 drag queens taking part in the hit BBC Three show when it airs on Thursday, January 14.
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13.12.2020 / 13:45
Teaching union branches threaten industrial action over covid safety dispute
Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) says six of its branches are moving to ballot union members in disputes with their respective local authorities, while another four branches are considering whether to take this step. EIS says current coronavirus measures do not keep pupils or staff safe.
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10.12.2020 / 18:38
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There are two massively acclaimed animated feature films arriving in viewers’ homes this month. One of them, Pixar’s “Soul,” premieres on Disney+ on Christmas Day.
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10.12.2020 / 16:36
Watch the Q by Aston Martin DBX Bowmore Edition
The luxury British car maker will build just 18 special DBX Bowmore Edition cars, which will be delivered to customers at a private lifestyle experience in Scotland.
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30.11.2020 / 17:30
SXSW Rags-To-Riches Doc ‘The Donut King’ Sells To Vice, Sky, Madman, More
EXCLUSIVE: UK sales firm Independent has sold SXSW-winning documentary The Donut King to key markets with Vice picking the film up for the world excluding North America, UK/Ireland, Japan, Australia/New Zealand and Portugal.
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30.11.2020 / 14:30
Mum of tragic Scot found dead in ditch joins in search for missing teen Kai Rae
missing teen Kai Rae. Stephanie Bonner has put her own turmoil on hold to help find 16-year-old Kai, who vanished from his family home a week ago.
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30.11.2020 / 13:52
Just why does a Scottish health board have its head in the sand over a new supersurgery for a booming community?
Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.Pressure is mounting on health chiefs accused of blanking the medical needs of a village that now has a town-sized population.The creaking Bishopton Health Centre is the only surgery in the booming area.There has been a seven-year stalemate to get the 43-year-old flat-roofed building off Greenock Road replaced.The delay is despite BAE Systems pledging £1million for a new multi-doctor surgery and donating its
dailyrecord.co.uk
29.11.2020 / 23:35
SAS hero Phil Campion launches appeal for missing Scots teen Kai Rae to 'go home'
SAS legend has urged a missing Scots teen to return home to his family. Former special forces hero Big Phil Campion made a heartfelt online appeal for Kai Rae to get in touch with his worried relatives after he disappeared.
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26.11.2020 / 14:39
Tory Scottish Secretary 'not going to resign' over international aid cuts
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22.11.2020 / 16:07
Scottish Government under pressure to reveal legal advice over Alex Salmond case
the correspondence - despite a formal request from a committee of MSPs who are investigating how the government botched its handling of the allegations made against the former SNP leader. Earlier this month a majority of MSPs backed a motion calling on the legal advice to be published.
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22.11.2020 / 07:41
Scots actor Brian Cox insists his parenting skills are nothing like Succession character Logan Roy
Brian Cox says his parenting skills are nothing like his ruthless on-screen character.The Dundee-born actor plays media mogul Logan Roy – who lets his children fight for control of his empire – in Succession.Each one of them seems dependent on him and almost self-destruct trying to win his approval.But dad-of-four Brian, 74, has said that he doesn’t overly protect his own children and feels they should be “allowed to fail”.Speaking on David Tennant Does A Podcast With…, he said: “My thing is