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Join thousands of others in getting the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox.Renfrewshire North and West SNP candidate Natalie Don has pledged to "set things straight" in a constituency which has received poor representation in Holyrood over the past 18 months.Miss Don - who is currently a councillor in Renfrewshire - is hoping to hold onto the seat for the SNP and replace the former finance secretary Derek Mackay as the MSP.Mr Mackay - who quit the SNP earlier this year - has

Disgraced former SNP finance secretary Derek Mackay has been spotted at an energy conference in Glasgow.

Nicola Sturgeon's decision to step down as First Minister and SNP leader has stunned the world of Scottish politics.

A thug once dubbed the most dangerous teenager in Scotland has been handed an extra 16 months in jail for stabbing two prison officers in a row over his dinner.

Scottish Labour is promising to clean up Holyrood by giving voters the right to sack MSPs mid-term and banning double jobbing.

Ferguson Marine shipyard.Gloucester-based businessman Tim Hair was handed the ­astronomical £2565-a-day deal by shamed ex-finance secretary Derek Mackay two years ago.It is likely to make him the UK’s highest paid public sector fatcat, on almost six times First Minister Nicola Sturgeon’s £151,000 salary.He was brought in after the Government nationalised the shipyard in the face of spiralling costs for two ferries.At the time, Mackay – who was forced to resign after sending inappropriate text

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.Shamed SNP politician Derek Mackay has finally quit the party in which he was elected to represent Renfrewshire North and West.He has resigned ahead of May’s Holyrood elections after more than a year of snubbing the parliament and trousering his meaty pay packet.Scotland’s former finance secretary leaves the SNP following his suspension from membership last February.The party say his quitting means

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.The SNP’s continued silence around the probe into Derek Mackay is a slight on the teenager he bombarded with messages and those who voted for him.That was the message from Neil Bibby MSP, who has challenged the SNP to bring the saga to end.Disgraced Mackay resigned as Finance Minister on the eve of the Scottish budget last year after it was reported he had repeatedly text a 16-year-old boy and callied him

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.Shamed politician Derek Mackay has been savaged by the woman who hopes to win his seat exactly one year on from his spectacular fall.Scottish Conservative and Unionist candidate Julie Pirone branded it “shameful and disgraceful” that Mackay has clung onto his job.It was a year ago on Saturday that he was forced to resign as SNP Finance Secretary.Details of his inappropriate messages to a 16-year-old boy

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.The Conservative party has chosen a candidate to contest Derek Mackay's seat in next year's Scottish Parliament election.Julie Pirone - who stood at last year's general election in Paisley and Renfrewshire North - will look to turn the Renfrewshire North and West seat blue when voters go to the polls next May.Since 2011, the seat has been held by former finance minister Mr Mackay, who was suspended by the

Derek Mackay has released a rare public statement by defending his taxpayer-funded expenses claims. Mackay, who quit the SNP Government in February after pestering a 16 year old school boy with messages, claimed over £4,000 since the month of his resignation.

Derek Mackay has continued to claim expenses for accommodation in Edinburgh since he resigned.Mackay quit Nicola Sturgeon's Cabinet in February after he bombarded a 16 year old boy with messages on social media.He has not been seen since at Holyrood and it unclear whether he will return to the Parliament.According to the BBC, the now Independent MSP claimed for accommodation in Edinburgh for 10 days in July.The broadcaster reported that it has seen claims filed by the Renfrewshire North and West

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our personalised newsletter.A Renfrewshire councillor has put her name forward to contest the Scottish Parliament seat currently held by the controversial MSP Derek Mackay.Natalie Don, who represents Bishopton, Bridge of Weir and Langbank, is hoping to become the SNP candidate for the Renfrewshire North and West seat, which has been held by the former finance secretary since 2011.Mr Mackay quit his ministerial position and was

The SNP has been criticised for a major delay in its investigation into the actions of disgraced Renfrewshire MSP Derek Mackay.Councillor Andy Doig has written to the SNP's national secretary Dr Angus MacLeod to demand answers over when he plans to convene the disciplinary committee to consider Mr Mackay's case.The former finance secretary was suspended by the party on February 6 - pending an investigation into his conduct - after it emerged he bombarded a 16-year-old boy with 270 messages on

Shamed MSP Derek Mackay finally turned up in Renfrewshire yesterday - three months after he quit in a text message scandal involving a 16-year-old schoolboy.

Disgraced MSP Derek Mackay has been lambasted for leaving the people of Renfrewshire North and West without a voice in parliament in the middle of a global pandemic.

Nicola Sturgeon has had no contact with former finance secretary Derek Mackay since he resigned from his post in shame over texts to a 16-year-old boy, her spokesman said.

Shamed Derek Mackay allowed a controversial banker to be appointed head of a new £2billion government fund without ethics watchdog oversight.

Shamed Derek Mackay allowed a controversial banker to be appointed head of a new £2billion government fund without ethics watchdog oversight.

Actor Brian Cox has blasted the SNP's shamed finance secretary as a "f****** idiot".

Shamed former finance secretary Derek Mackay will not face charges over “inappropriate” social media messages to a boy of 16.

Disgraced Derek Mackay is undergoing “medical assessment and treatment” after resigning for allegedly “grooming” a 16 year old boy.

Disgraced former finance secretary Derek Mackay has been stripped of his honorary position with the Boys’ Brigade in the wake of the schoolboy texting scandal.

A former SNP councillor believes the behaviour of disgraced MSP Derek Mackay could be traced back to a turbulent childhood.

An SNP activist who was hounded online by shamed MSP Derek Mackay for nearly four years will be interviewed today by police over his ordeal.

Deputy SNP leader Keith Brown said it’s “very difficult” to see how disgraced Derek Mackay can stay in the Scottish Parliament.

Police have spoken to the 16-year-old schoolboy who was bombarded with social media messages by Scotland's former finance secretary Derek Mackay.

An SNP activist who was hounded online by disgraced MSP Derek Mackay has asked party bosses to speak to him during their probe into the former finance minister’s conduct.

A married SNP activist last night told how disgraced Derek Mackay bombarded him with messages for almost four years, including one asking: “Got any naughty pics?”

Nicola Sturgeon has responded to Derek Mackay's resignation as finance secretary amid claims he sent messages to a 16-year-old boy.

Nicola Sturgeon has revealed Derek Mackay has been suspended from the SNP amid the fallout from the text scandal ripples through Scottish politics.

The Scottish Finance Secretary Derek MacKay has resigned after sending inappropriate messages to a 16-year-old boy.

Derek Mackay is facing a potentially explosive choice between teaming up with the Tories or Greens to pass his budget through the Scottish Parliament.