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Scotland’s unemployment rate has risen slightly in the last quarter despite some businesses still struggling to recruit staff.

A patient waited a staggering 122 hours for treatment in an accident and emergency department.

The NHS in Scotland is "fighting for its life" after another dire set of monthly figures revealed the severe pressure hospitals continue to face.

Victims of brain butcher Sam Eljamel will gather in Holyrood to protest over “dithering” on the public inquiry into the affair. Many of Eljamel’s former patients have been left with permanent disabilities from his botched surgeries.

Workers at Ferguson Marine "deserve certainty" after the Scottish Government rejected a request for £25m of additional investment in the nationalised shipyard.

An SNP Cabinet Secretary has said there is no “immediate risk to safety” in schools over the collapsing concrete threat.

An SNP minister has admitted it could be cheaper to scrap one of the troubled CalMac ferries currently under construction and start again.

Scots wanting to donate to help earthquake survivors in Turkey and Syria are being urged to do so via recognised charities.

A house builder has had a decision on plans for new homes in Bathgate put on hold for two months while uncertainty over missing paperwork is sorted out.

A Thornhill-based landmine clearing charity has been given Scottish Government funding to continue its work in Ukraine.

Scotland’s Ukraine minister has told those who fled to the country after the Russian invasion “Scotland is your home for as long as you’re here” ahead of the festive period.

Scottish Secretary Alister Jack ignored a plea to meet one of the country’s top anti-poverty groups to discuss the cuts to Universal Credit.

iOS - Android In neighbouring South Lanarkshire, 6155 families had 21,275 payments totalling £1.05m.So far, across Scotland 108,000 children have benefitted from the payment which provides eligible families with £10 per week.

iOS - Android The additional money for upgrading was welcomed by Neil Gray, the Airdrie & Shotts MSP – who asked residents for their opinions on local play facilities three years ago when MP for the same constituency.He received 137 replies, with more than three quarters of respondents calling for better play equipment to be installed.Mr Gray said: “The response was overwhelmingly negative when I ran a survey across Airdrie & Shotts to see what people thought of the standard of their local play

Carer's Allowance Supplement given to unpaid carers at the end of the year. The Parliament's Social Justice and Social Security Committee is considering increasing the £231.40 paid twice a year to unpaid carers by doubling it when it is awarded in December.

In a Parliamentary Written Question to the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills, Shirley-Anne Somerville, Neil Gray, Airdrie & Shotts MSP asked how many children in Airdrie and Shotts would benefit from the roll-out of universal free school meals.The response Mr Gray received showed that, across all 23 primary schools in the constituency, a total of 5300 children will be able to access free school meals – an increase of 2400 – more than were previously entitled to receive this benefit.Head

SNP MSP has claimed an independent Scotland could guarantee a couple with children a minimum income of more than £37,000 a year. Neil Gray admits the plans have not been costed.

SNP MSP has claimed an independent Scotland could guarantee a couple with children a minimum income of more than £37,000 a year. Neil Gray admits the plans have not been costed.

as more results are declared. Siobhan Brown (Ayr) In what could rank as the SNP's biggest win of the entire election, Siobhan Brown gained Ayr for Nicola Sturgeon's party from the Tories in one of the closest run races of the campaign.

election. Neil Gray, who stepped down as an MP to run for the Holyrood chamber, took to Twitter to say he had been bitten when he was out leafleting.

MP Neil Gray who is standing to become an MSP at Holyrood. As Scots go to the polls on May 6 to elect 129 MSPs there will be a tightly fought campaign dealing with locals issues on the doorsteps of the Lanarkshire towns.

crowdfunding webpage set up by Monklands Women’s Aid, aiming to collect up to £100,000.

water could be emptied from the “high-risk” site, three miles east of Chapelhall, as it is no longer used as a supply source and requires significant and costly upgrading work.

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.Shotts MP Neil Gray has hit out at the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s decisions contained in this week’s Spending Review.Mr Gray fears that his constituents will be hit hard by decisions by Rishi Sunak which will punish public sector workers and families on low incomes.New analysis from the Resolution Foundation has found that average pay packets could be cut by £1,200 a year by 2025.The Resolution Foundation

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.THE Scottish Government’s decision to plug the shortfall in school milk funding left by Brexit has been praised by Airdrie MP Neil Gray.Children and young people in Monklands will now be able to continue to access subsidised milk in schools, despite the EU ceasing to provide local authorities with provision subsidy.Ministers had pressed the UK Government to make up the shortfall, but to date no such

Airdrie and Coatbridge Advertiser: “I’d need to resign in March so that a by-election could take place on the same day, for minimum cost and disruption to the parliament and representation.

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.AIRDRIE'S MP has hit out at the “shocking way” the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) has treated new Universal Credit claimants during lockdown.Figures release in response to a Parliamentary Written Question by Chris Stephens MP revealed that residents in Neil Gray’s Airdrie & Shotts constituency who had applied for an advance payment of their benefit to see them through the initial five-week wait had,

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.North Lanarkshire Conservatives have accused Shotts MP Neil Gray of hypocrisy over recent comments regarding community alarms.Mr Gray slammed the decision to introduce the £3.40 per week charge in last week’s Wishaw Press.However, the local authority’s Tory Group state they voted against the charges being introduced in February’s budget, with SNP and Labour voting to reintroduce the charges, and they

UK Goverment has been called on to maintain a £20 increase to Universal Credit payments introduced during the height of lockdown instead of scrapping it next year as planned.Neil Gray, the SNP's work and pensions spokesman, said the meagre rise had provided a "vital" lifeline for struggling families during the coronavirus pandemic.In an opinion piece for the Record, the MP for Airdrie and Shotts insisted there was still for the UK Government "to do what is right" and maintain the increase.A

Click here for more news from the Airdrie and Coatbridge AdvertiserConstituency counterpart Neil Gray MP also praised the new technology, which will send an automatic alert and public health advice by push notification if proximity is established between a user and someone who has tested positive.He said: “Even though there are restrictions in place, we may not know everyone we are in contact with so this app is a great tool in the fight against Covid 19.

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.AIRDRIE'S MP has challenged the Prime Minister to “unequivocally rule out” enforcing a public sector pay freeze as part of the UK’s economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.Neil Gray says this is a move which would “hit frontline workers who have sacrificed so much in tackling the pandemic”.During Prime Minister’s Questionss, Mr Gray warned Boris Johnson against pursuing Treasury plans reported

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.Shotts MP Neil Gray has announced he will be seeking his party’s nomination to succeed Alex Neil as the town’s MSP.Mr Gray, senior member of Ian Blackford’s frontbench team at Westminster as Work and Pensions spokesperson, would need to stand down as an MP by March in order for the UK Parliament by-election to be held on the same day as the Scottish Parliament elections.Neil Gray became the first SNP MP for

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our personalised newsletter.AIRDRIE'S MP is leading the SNP’s demands that the UK Government urgently introduces a comprehensive range of new measures to protect households hit by financial issues brought on by lockdown.Neil Gray has made the call after a new report revealed six million people in Britain have fallen behind on bills due to the coronavirus pandemic.The research by Citizens Advice shows one in nine people have

Join thousands of others who have signed up for the Daily Record newsletter.Shotts MP Neil Gray has criticised news that free TV licences for all over-75s are to be scrapped from next month, saying it will impact nearly 6000 people in his constituency.BBC officials have announced that the controversial change is to go ahead from August 1, after a two-month delay related to coronavirus – meaning most pensioners will now face an annual fee of £154.50 for viewing.Licences will still be issued free

Universal Credit claimants who need to self-isolate in the event of contracting coronavirus or as a precautionary measure will not be sanctioned, a work and pensions minister has confirmed.

AIRDRIE'S MP has backed a Bill to protect the NHS from “being used as a bargaining chip in future trade deals with foreign nations”.