Local labour group hit out at SNP over "missing millions"

It was indeed a 'hero' moment for Bobby Lashley on this week's Monday Night Raw as he finally won his first WWE Championship, which was 17 years in the making.

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Scottish Government won't offer the full legal advice to the Holyrood committee looking at the handling of sexual misconduct complaints against Alex Salmond.The Scottish Conservative MSP took to Twitter last night claiming the material being released by the government to the inquiry won't "give the full picture" and will "paint them in a good light".It comes after the Tories tabled a no confidence motion, which was backed by other opposition parties at Holyrood, in the Deputy First Minster John

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Scottish Conservatives are threatening to lodge a week lodge a motion of no confidence in Nicola Sturgeon's second in command at Holyrood on Tuesday.The Tories are giving Swinney 24 hours to agree to release the legal advice or face a vote to remove him from office.The Deputy First Minister has previously ignored two cross-party motions in the Scottish Parliament attempting to force the government to comply with a parliamentary majority telling it to publish the advice.The committee

Anas Sarwar after he became the new Scottish Labour leader.Despite being longtime political rivals the First Minister has admitted she 'likes and rates' Sarwar after he scooped the top job.It comes after he beat out Monica Lennon the Labour leader position this morning.The Scottish Labour leadership contest finally drew to a close as this morning as politicians rallied round Sarwar's win.Sturgeon tweeted: "Congratulations to @AnasSarwar- he (and his dad before him) and I are longtime political

Anas Sarwar on beating her for Scottish Labour Leader.The Central Scotland MSP and leadership hopeful took to social media praising Sarwar for winning the top job after a tightly run contest.It comes after the Scottish Labour leadership contest finally drew to a close, with Sarwar announced as the victor this morning.Sarwar scooped the win following focused attempts to reunite the party while trying to resist any move towards another independence referendum.It comes after Leonard quit in

Anas Sarwar has won the Scottish Labour leader job race after beating out Monica Lennon.The Scottish Labour leadership contest has finally drawn to a close as the winner was announced this morning.Now Sarwar has secured the top role following his focused on attempts to reunite the party while trying to resist any move towards another independence referendum.It comes after Leonard quit in January, days after saying he was determined to fight for every vote in the election this May.Glasgow MSP

Scottish Labour is set to be announced at 11am this morning.The announcement comes 10 weeks after the shock resignation of former leader Richard Leonard in January.Leonard claimed his decision to step down was in the “best interests” of the party.The race to find his successor is between Glasgow MSP Anas Sarwar and Central Scotland MSP Monica Lennon.Both have sought to pitch themselves as the “change candidate” during the contest.Scotland's constitutional future has again been one of the major

Trident submarines are based on the Clyde.The SNP is opposed to nuclear weapons for an independent Scotland but is committed to being in the Nato nuclear umbrella.In a speech to the Royal United Service Institute, Healey will attempt to move on from Jeremy Corbyn’s outspoken reluctance to back the nuclear deterrent which was seen as one of the reasons Labour was viewed by many voters as being “unpatriotic” in the 2019 election.Healey will say Labour’s commitment to NATO is “unshakeable”.He will

Loose Women star Kaye Adams has claimed victory in a battle with the taxman. Kaye had been embroiled in a long-running dispute with HMRC over her employment status.

bomb was blown up in a controlled explosion on a Scots beach after a terrified local raised the alarm.The casing of the explosive, understood to be from the Second World War, was found at Ballantrae Harbour in South Ayrshire.Local coastguard teams were alerted to the find and the police and disposal experts called to deal with the ordinance.A massive 330 foot cordon was put up around the area as the experts rigged the casing for destruction.Video footage posted by the coastguard team shows the

Crown Office. A Scottish Parliament spokesperson said: “Following representations from the Crown Office on Monday evening, the SPCB agreed collectively this morning that it will remove the Alex Salmond submission on the Ministerial Code from its website with immediate effect and republish it later today in a redacted form.

Perth is first city in the UK to have resident urban beaversAppeal to help children of woman found dead in PerthshireThe study – published in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs – will inform governments, public health experts, and policy makers in the UK and other countries as they consider the impact of the pandemic on hospitality and the risks of lifting restrictions.The university has since come in for scathing criticism from the hospitality industry, with the Scottish Licensed Trade

Jackie Baillie, made the call as part of a wider campaign to improve pay and conditions after a “heroic” year of effort.She based the calculation of figures showing 206,400 people in the sector are on the median wage of £9.50 an hour.Baillie said: “Our heroic social care workers, on whom we have all relied during this pandemic, have been undervalued and underpaid for too long.“Hundreds of thousands of predominantly female social care workers are languishing on poverty pay, while many of those

interviewed by Oprah Winfrey will be re-edited as tension between them and the Royal Family continues to bubble.This week, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex confirmed they will not be returning as working members of the Royal Family and also revealed that they would be taking part in a tell-all interview with Oprah, which reportedly 'blindsided' the Queen.The couple, known when in Scotland as the Earl and Countess of Dumbarton, say they will continue to support organisations they have formally

Scottish Child Payment launched on Monday but only 77,000 applications had been received as of last Sunday from an estimated total of 138,000 eligible households. Parents and carers who receive other welfare support - such as Universal Credit - are able to apply for the payment for each child under the age of six, with the benefit being rolled out for all qualifying under-16s by 2022.

is on course for a majority of seats at May's Holyrood election while support for independence has also climbed over the last 12 months.Carwyn Jones, who led Welsh Labour from 2009 until 2018, said this popularity was partly a response to the "English nationalist" outlook of the UK Government led by Johnson.He said it would be "very difficult to oppose" for the Prime Minister to oppose an IndyRef2 if the Nationalists won a majority as expected.And the former Welsh Assembly leader warned that

drink-drive limit when she was caught by cops.Paisley mum Karen Aitchison, 56, was at the wheel of her black Seat Altea when she was pulled over at Main Street, Bridge of Weir, on January 16.Officers noticed the smell of drink coming from her, and immediately requested another patrol car equipped with a breathalyser attend.

link!“This is an annual fund. If North Lanarkshire Council submits a competent bid which meets the criteria, in consultation with the included school community, then of course I would support it as a constituency MSP.“Ms Nolan is asking me to use the privilege of my committee convenership to gain an unfair advantage for an incompetent funding application.