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Local authority chiefs have been planning council tax rises of 10 per cent - piling pressure on Humza Yousaf to say how his government will pay for a freeze.

Six bosses at a firm owned by Glasgow Council have been awarded bonuses of nearly £150,000 during the cost of living crisis.

Nicola Sturgeon has hailed the Daily Record's Our Kids, Our Future campaign as she vows to commit to tackling youth violence in Scotland.

The image of one young girl kicking another in her face will stay with me, probably forever.

A “conspiracy of silence” on violence in schools has allowed the problem to spiral out of control. MSP Willie Rennie claimed education bosses and government ministers are not prepared to admit the scale of the crisis.

Nicola Sturgeon has been urged to take action against youth violence in Scottish schools after footage emerged of a sickening attack in a classroom.

The Lib Dems have blamed the Scottish Government for a drop in the number of public toilets across the country.

Fly-tippers escape punishment for illegally dumping their rubbish in Scotland almost 99 per cent of the time, shock figures suggest.

The SNP government has been slammed for "ploughing ahead" with P1 testing despite concerns about the policy from a senior figure in the party and opposition MSPs.

Patrick Harvie has been accused of "holding back" solar power in Scotland after it was revealed he refused to raise limits on the size of projects eligible for business rates relief.

The son of a Tory donor who hosted Boris Johnson’s wedding party was handed an £11.2million UK Government grant to build hydrogen buses. Jo Bamford’s Wrightbus was given the cash to pioneer the “green” fuel cell vehicles in March 2021.

Scottish ministers are facing transparency calls after it was revealed a metal tycoon under investigation for fraud paid just £5 towards the acquisition of a Highlands smelting plant – with taxpayers financing the rest of the £330 million deal.

Edinburgh Western MSP takes over from long-term leader Willie Rennie who stepped down from the role last month after more than 10 years in the role. Cole-Hamilton was the only MSP from the Lib Dems group at Holyrood to put his name forward for the post.

he is the strong favourite to replace Willie Rennie as the next leader of the smallest party in the Scottish Parliament in terms of seats. The vacancy arose after the resignation of Rennie, who had led the Lib Dems north of the border for a decade.Cole-Hamilton was born in Hertfordshire in 1977 and moved to Scotland with his family at the age of seven.

Alex Cole-Hamilton will not face a contest and he could be in line to take over from next month. The vacancy arose after the resignation of Willie Rennie, who had led the Lib Dems north of the border for a decade.

SNP leader in a special session later today. Nicola Sturgeon will be sworn in as First Minister, however Rennie says it "should not just be an SNP cakewalk".

UK normally takes place overnight, however that won't be the case this time due to the pandemic.

ix weeks of campaigning messages to just a few sentences. Scots across the country will head to the polling booths tomorrow, May 6, in what is being described as the most significant election since devolution in 1999.

Douglas Ross (Scottish Conservatives), Willie Rennie (Lib Dems) and Patrick Harvie (Scottish Greens) all went up against one another in a tame BBC TV debate.

BBC debate was the first to show the five party leaders having a genuine discussion on politics. Previous showings had been tedious, with politicians wheeling out their pre-prepared soundbites and key messages.Nicola Sturgeon (SNP), Douglas Ross (Tory), Anas Sarwar (Lab), Willie Rennie (LD) and Patrick Harvie (Greens) generated heat rather than light in those early debates.

BBC One Scotland and the BBC News Channel for the fourth and final time of the election campaign tonight. Nicola Sturgeon (SNP), Douglas Ross (Scottish Conservatives), Anas Sarwar (Labour), Willie Rennie (Lib Dems) and Patrick Harvie (Scottish Greens) will all face questions from BBC Scotland Political Editor Glenn Campbell on the show which kicks off at 7.50pm.

Anas Sarwar (Scottish Labour), Douglas Ross (Scottish Conservatives), Willie Rennie (Lib Dems) and Patrick Harvie (Greens) tackled some of the main issues during the 45-minute programme. It was the third television debate of the Scottish Parliament election campaign and the first UK-wide one.

Boris Johnson said he would prefer to “let bodies pile high” than agree to a third lockdown.

Douglas Ross being in charge of the Scottish Tories. He said: “My politics and his are different.

Douglas Ross (Scottish Conservatives), Willie Rennie (Lib Dems) and Patrick Harvie (Scottish Greens) all went head-to-head against one another in a fiery debate on STV. It was the second time the candidates for First Minister got to quiz each other in the campaign.

ultimately benefit from the policy, which includes NHS staff and those employed by local authorities. While the majority of those eligible should now have received the bonus, concerns have been raised about the number of council-employed care workers who are still waiting for payment.

the one-off sum would be offered as a reward for efforts during the coronavirus pandemic.Around 300,000 people are expected to ultimately benefit from the policy, which includes NHS staff and those employed by local authorities.While the majority of those eligible should now have received the bonus, concerns have been raised about the number of council-employed care workers who are still waiting for payment.Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie said he was aware of delays across several council areas

following a bad-tempered local campaign in the Ross, Skye, and Lochaber constituency.

Scottish Lib Dems leader wants future Scottish Parliament polls to use single transferable vote (STV), the same system used at council elections since 2007 which sees voters rank candidates by order of preference.His party also wants a return to Holyrood elections being held every four years instead of five and support the introduction of a recall function which could see misbehaving MSPs removed from office.Rennie claimed yesterday that Alba - a breakaway party launched last month - was

the independence debate and offering voters "very little else". Rennie made the remarks after a poll published yesterday predicted that Alex Salmond’s new party will be elected to Holyrood as part of a huge majority of pro-independence MSPs.

Nicola Sturgeon was joined by Anas Sarwar from Labour, Douglas Ross from the Scottish Conservatives, Willie Rennie from the Lib Dems and Lorna Slater of the Scottish Greens to be quizzed on the BBC.

party chiefs. The First Minister Nicola Sturgeon will be joined by Anas Sarwar from Labour, Douglas Ross from the Scottish Conservatives, Willie Rennie from the Lib Dems and Lorna Slater of the Scottish Greens.

Scottish politics.But the Scottish Greens co-leader will join Nicola Sturgeon, Anas Sarwar, Douglas Ross and Willie Rennie for the first election debate of 2021 live on BBC One tonight.Co-leader Patrick Harvie is the most high profile Greens MSP and has been a mainstay of politics in Scotland for a number of years - but not much is known about Slater in comparison.She did however appear on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show on Sunday it what was her first major TV interview.So, what do we know about

Douglas Ross saying he has "no ideas" how to unite Scotland. The Scottish Conservative leader wrote to Sarwar over the weekend urging them, along with the Lib Dems, to create a 'pro-Union' coalition.

pandemic, should be a matter for Holyrood to decide.

Brexit on a rocket to Mars, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie has said. Speaking at the UK Liberal Democrat spring conference, Rennie said now is not the moment for the "long, divisive, argumentative, exhausting, all-consuming event" of another referendum on the issue.