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Shock figures have revealed a 60% rise in prison custody deaths in a single year.

Taxpayers have been hit with a £27,000 bill after the Scottish Government failed to hire a net zero tsar.

Nicola Sturgeon has been accused of fobbing off chronic pain patients by blaming the pandemic for treatment delays.

Shock new figures have revealed rape survivors are waiting up to 16 months to access vital services.

A council has been branded “desperate” for asking unqualified staff if they would like to earn more money working in social care.

Scottish Labour MSP Monica Lennon asked the SNP leader at First Minister's Questions earlier today about the important issue. Lennon, an MSP for the Central Scotland Region, said abortion rights are under attack around the world but also in Scotland with many women being confronted by protesters at clinics.Sturgeon was asked to speed up the process of implementing buzzer zones around facilities after it has "stalled".

Of these, 287 Covid-related deaths were recorded in South Lanarkshire care homes that are purely for older people.

Head over to our new Lanarkshire Live Facebook page to make sure you're up to date with the top stories in the regionThe five year drive saw her lodge a proposal for a Bill that has now led to the passage of the law which ensures the provision of free period products in communities and education settings across Scotland.Ms Lennon said: “It’s an honour to have been nominated for the Scotswoman of the Year Award 2020 and to be in the company of so many inspiring and phenomenal women finalists.“I

rape crisis centre. Labour MSP Monica Lennon said: “Waiting times for rape survivors to get support in Scotland are a national disgrace and should shame SNP ministers.

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

Nicola Sturgeon has led tributes to Scots entertainment legend Sydney Devine, who died at the age of 81.The First Minister said the country and Western singer’s name was “synonymous with Scottish entertainment”.She wrote on Twitter: “So sad. For Scots of a certain vintage - which definitely includes me - the name Sydney Devine was once synonymous with Scottish entertainment.

Scottish Labour’s leadership contenders have revealed that they could push for income tax rises.Hopefuls Monica Lennon and Anas Sarwar broke the news while debating their political stances on BBC's The Nine programme on Monday.Ms Lennon said any changes would be part of an overall review while Mr Sarwar claimed he wanted to bring in more money to the public purse by increasing the amount paid by top earners.He added: “I think we need a progressive tax system where we get the powers we need to do

Anas Sarwar MSP said a Scottish jobs crisis is hidden behind figures that show 282,800 people in Scotland were furloughed by the end of December 31, up from 195,200 at the end of October.The data means around 11 per cent of eligible workers in Scotland are furloughed, 146,500 women and 136,300 men, during the latest lockdown.The furlough scheme has been extended by Chancellor Rishi Sunak several times and is currently planned to finish at the end of April.Sarwar, , who is opposing Monica Lennon

the role left by Richard Leonard, who quit suddenly this month. Lennon sets out her vision, printed in full below, after frustration at the ongoing crisis despite years of promises at Holyrood.She said: “We will use the full might of the Scottish Parliament’s tax and social security powers.

link.The MSP added: “We need to look at what was happening in our country before the pandemic.“We know locally that in Larkhall and Blantyre the SNP council closed council-run care homes. We need more council-run care homes, not fewer of them, so I am committed to publicly-owned national care services to make sure that we put people before profit.“I care about our local area.

Labour anti-semitism row, has backed MSP Monica Lennon for the top job.

indyref2 ballot in a bid to make Scotland the best place in the world for workers.In an interview with the Record, she also blasted “hurtful” sexism inside her own party and blasted claims she lacks the experience for the top job.Lennon, Scottish Labour’s health spokeswoman, is going head-to-head with fellow MSP Anas Sarwar for the Scottish Labour leadership after Richard Leonard resigned.The 40-year-old, who is from Blantyre in Lanarkshire, is known for steering through a pioneering law through

Unite said it was endorsing the MSP to replace Richard Leonard as it had worked with her on a number of campaigns, including the succesful proposal to make period products available free of charge.

Daily Record interview, Sarwar predicted he can become First Minister in five years. The Glasgow MSP believes securing second place at May’s Holyrood election would be a “staging post” to Labour entering Government in 2026.

Anas Sarwar says he's 'looking forward' to the battle with Monica Lennon for the Scottish Labour Party hotseat. Sarwar has responded to the news that Lennon has thrown her name into the hat in the race to become the next party leader.

Labour leader. The MP for central Scotland has thrown in her hat in the ring alongside Anas Sarwar.

drug deaths.The solemn gesture came as Labour’s health spokesperson Monica Lennon demanded an immediate £20 million package to fund residential rehab in Scotland.That sum, which would match the entire budget of the Scottish Drug Deaths Task Force, reflects the high cost if such treatment, which has been all but abandoned in Scotland in recent years.New drugs policy minister Angela Constance pledged to secure enough funding to bring Scotland’s shoddy rehab services - currently funding a meagre 22

link.Scottish Tories MSP Annie Wells said: “We’ll support this important Bill and will seek to ensure the SNP Government put resources and funding in place to deliver it in the way it should be.“Nobody should struggle to access vital sanitary products due to poverty.

East Kilbride News previously highlighted the desperate plight of Campbell Duke and his family from East Kilbride.

covid testing for all health and social care workers. Scottish Labour’s Monica Lennon called for the ‘immediate’ routine testing that received support from all parties in a vote at Holyrood on Wednesday evening.

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.The family of a prisoner who died after developing a stomach ulcer claim his life could have been saved had the problem been diagnosed.Stewart Glancy’s relatives say he had begged to see a doctor in the days before being found dead in his cell at HMP Addiewell in West Lothian.MSP Monica Lennon, Scottish Labour’s health spokesperson, said the death “raises many questions”.Mr Glancy, 38, of Hamilton, died on

Scottish Labour has adopted the decriminalisation of drugs as official policy.The moves by the party came after the Daily Record’s campaign to treat drug addiction as a health issue rather than a criminal one.Since our bold front page declaration in July last year, the SNP voted at its party conference to adopt a similar stance.Scottish Labour’s slow pace of reform frustrated senior MSPs like health spokesperson Monica Lennon and Neil Findlay, who have constantly argued for the party to adopt a

link.But just 41 of those patients were tested, three of whom returned a positive result. That meant 126 patients were discharged to care homes without being tested.Central Scotland MSP Monica Lennon has since written to the health board to find out which care homes were affected – but the request was refused as being “manifestly unreasonable”.

pandemic as last year, new figures reveal. Fears have been raised that as many as 100,000 operations have been postponed because of the virus.

Margaret Ferrier attended a church service 24 hours after she developed symptoms for coronavirus, it has emerged.The shamed MP, who has been urged to quit for making an 800-mile round trip with Covid, also gave a reading at a mass in Glasgow.She has been accused of taking a “deliberate gamble” with people’s health and putting priests and worshippers’ lives at risk.Labour MSP Monica Lennon said: “Not even a place of worship was safe from this MP’s selfish and dangerous actions.“There is no end to

cancer deaths" with the party claiming that some 10,000 people with the disease may miss out on surgery over the next two years.The party's health spokeswoman Monica Lennon raised her concerns about the impact a reduction in operations would have - branding the move "wrongheaded".With NHS surgery to run at 60% of capacity over the next two years as a result of the pandemic, Labour fears the number of cancer patients having operations could fall from more than 12,000 a year to about 7,000.Lennon

Covid-19 were knowingly discharged from hospitals to care homes. Monica Lennon, the party's health spokeswoman, has written to the Lord Advocate to request confirmation a Crown Office unit tasked with investigating care home deaths will examine the impact of hospital discharges.

shield from coronavirus have died, according to the Scottish Government. However, ministers have been criticised after saying they do not hold information on the causes of death.