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MSPs will today be asked to declare a housing emergency in Scotland amid a winter rough sleeping epidemic.

Scottish Labour has demanded that Humza Yousaf makes an urgent statement to parliament about the housing emergency.

An attempt by Scottish Labour to declare a housing emergency in Scotland has failed.

More than a quarter of schools in Scotland still contain asbestos despite on-going work to remove the harmful substance, new figures show.

Scots suffering from long covid as a result of their job could be entitled to a new workplace injuries benefit under plans backed by a Labour MSP.

Over 60,000 Scots homes face a higher risk of repossession due to the Tory mortgage “bombshell”.

Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed, the latest in-depth documentary portrait by Sid & Judy director Stephen Kijak.Kijak’s films, both narrative and nonfiction, have delved into cultural icons from Judy Garland to Lynyrd Skynyrd to the Backstreet Boys. For this entertaining bio, he worked closely with author Mark Griffin — whose 2018 All That Heaven Allows: A Biography of Rock Hudson is considered definitive — “to look at all the facets and angles, and the reflections and double meanings and mirror selves” presented by the bright, ex-Navy seaman from Winnetka, Illinois, who became Rock Hudson.“He was in some of the more indelible films of those classic eras,” Kijak says, ticking off Hudson’s famous Douglas Sirk-directed romances Magnificent Obsession and All That Heaven Allows.

A Scottish Government-led group is considering plans for an “extension tax” to boost town hall coffers.

Nurses suffering from Long Covid have told how their lives and careers have been left in ruins after picking up the virus as they cared for others.

A leaked dossier has predicted nearly 6,000 job losses in Scots councils in the next few years.

Elizabeth Taylor just wanted to see her friend Rock Hudson one last time before he died. According to Hudson’s doctor, Michael Gottlieb, the “Cleopatra” actress was able to sneak into the hospital where the ailing actor was staying before he passed away from AIDS-related complications in October 1985 at the age of 59.Gottlieb revealed how Taylor got in to see the “Pillow Talk” star on his deathbed — with the doctor’s sneaky assistance — in an interview with Closer Weekly, according to the Daily Mail.“I picked Elizabeth up in my old station wagon and we managed to get in through a loading dock at the back of the hospital to see him,” the doctor recalled.“Rock understood the implications of having AIDS in those early days,” he added about the era that “demonized” those with the disease.

Anas Sarwar’s “National Recovery Plan” came after the UK Labour leader Keir Starmer repeatedly refused to back any progressive drugs policies and said the Tory drug policy is “roughly right”.Independent candidate Peter Krykant, who is standing in Falkirk with the hope of increasing support for Overdose Prevention Centres (or Drug Consumption Rooms), said he was stunned during a recent hustings when Labour candidate Mark Griffin said he did not support the decriminalisation of drugs.Krykant, who

Richard Leonard has said the row over whether a leadership challenge can be mounted against the embattled Scottish Labour leader could end up in the courts.MSP Daniel Johnson, who has urged Leonard to stand down, said the view that Holyrood colleagues cannot trigger a contest is legally challengeable.Leonard is fighting to hold on to his job after a mutiny by MSP colleagues.Johnson, James Kelly, Jenny Marra and Mark Griffin have all called on the left-winger to quit, as have four party peers.As

Richard Leonard say they have the numbers required for a leadership challenge against him.MSPs James Kelly and Daniel Johnson claim to have the five signatures necessary for a contest, but they have demanded clarity amid disagreement on the rules.Leonard, who has been in post for nearly three years, is under pressure over terrible election results and dismal opinion polls.Four MSPs - Kelly, Johnson, Jenny Marra and Mark Griffin - have all called on him to quit, as have four party peers.His

Around 2,000 children will be left “languishing” in poverty due to a lower take up of the SNP Government’s flagship benefits policy.