Pupils at Scottish schools should get resit 'guarantee' and free college place, says Labour

Livingston: McCrorie; Devlin, Fitzwater, Guthrie, Longridge; Holt, Bartley; Sibbald (Kabia 112), Pittman (Diani 112), Forrest (Mullin 62); Emmanuel-Thomas (Poplatnik 71). Subs not used: Stryjek, Lithgow, McMillan, Ambrose, Lawson.

coronavirus in Scotland over the last 24 hours. The Scottish Government released the latest figures this afternoon, revealing no new deaths in the same time frame.

Scottish Parliament party launched itself on social media last year and aims to do what it says on the tin - ditch Holyrood and return Scotland to direct rule from London.

first-time buyers in Scotland as it introduces a new range of shared equity mortgages to support the relaunch of the First Home Fund on April 1. Fee free fixed rate deals up to 85% LTV (loan to value) with £500 cashback are among the newest additions to Leeds Building Society’s mortgages for Scottish borrowers.

Anas Sarwar will set out the policy today as part of a national recovery plan for the NHS which will be published at the party’s campaign launch.The move follows calls from the Royal College of General Practitioners for the Scottish Government to commit to transforming mental health with more focus on the use of mental health clinicians in primary care teams.A recent study by the Mental Health Foundation found 13% experienced distressing emotions last month — up from 10% during the first

Kenny MacAskill said Nicola Sturgeon's party had "failed to achieve a majority" at the last Holyrood elections in 2016 and it was now time for other pro-independence parties to step up. The MP for East Lothian quit the SNP yesterday to join the newly launched Alba Party, which will be led by Alex Salmond and is aiming to win MSPs at May's election via the list vote.

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Anas Sarwar has been praised for ‘keeping his cool’ after being ambushed by an irate former Brexit party member branded a 'racist bully'. David Ballantine, who previously referred to Islam as a “child rapist death cult”, targeted the Scottish Labour leader as he gave an interview outside Holyrood on Monday.

a previous FOI we sent to Public Health Scotland, that revealed that there were 294 pupils across 55 schools in the nine months from March 2020 to January 2021.The secondary schools with pupils returning positive coronavirus infections in January and February were: Armadale Academy, Bathgate Academy, Broxburn Academy, Deans Community High School, Inveralmond Community High School, James Young High School, Linlithgow Academy, St Kentigern’s Academy, St Margaret’s Academy, West Calder High School

Anas Sarwar 's party is now two percentage points ahead of the Scottish Tories. According to the poll, which had 1,011 respondents, support for the SNP has dipped by six per cent compared to a poll carried out three weeks ago.

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.

Westminster bar plans to sue his accuser. Ross Thomson, who represented Aberdeen South from June 2017 to November 2019, also wants Scottish Labour to suspend Paul Sweeney and for the party to hold an investigation into his conduct.

Jackie Baillie tabled a member's bill at Holyrood in 2019 in an effort to ensure the NHS supplied the mobility aids if requested.Under previous guidance, hospitals only provided wheelchairs to patients who would require one for six months or more.This meant patients who only required a wheelchair on a short term basis had to find the money to buy one themselves or rely on charities such as the British Red Cross.Following discussions between ministers, health bosses and Labour this rule will now

Head over to our new Lanarkshire Live Facebook page to make sure you're up to date with the top stories in the regionKenny O’Donnell, principal teacher of social subjects at St Aidan’s High, said: “As a department, we all teach about inequality.

Nicola Sturgeon on March 2, the day before she appeared before the inquiry investigating the handling of harassment complaints against former first minister Alex Salmond.On BBC Scotland's Sunday Show, Andrea Bradley, the assistant secretary of the EIS teaching union, said the Scottish Government was looking for a "good news story that week".However, Ms Sturgeon had previously announced the earliest date for some pupils to return to school would be March 15.On Monday, Education Secretary John

school on February 22.Senior secondary school pupils required to attend for practical work for qualifications were able to return from the same date.Now, all high school students will be able head back to the classroom part-time, as part of a blended learning model meaning they will continue to do some learning at home until after the Easter break.Nicola Sturgeon confirmed the plans in a speech to MSPs on March 2 and has repeatedly stressed that having pupils return to school is her lockdown

Nicola Sturgeon’s troubles at Holyrood’s Salmond Inquiry.The EIS hit out at the decision as parents prepared to send Primary 4-7 kids back full-time on Monday, along with the part-time return of secondary pupils.Andrea Bradley, EIS assistant secretary, told BBC Scotland teachers had been “caught by surprise” by the First Minister’s March 2 announcement on the eve of her giving eight hours of evidence to the Alex Salmond inquiry.Bradley said: “The decision seemed to be a political one rather than

Starmer described Sarwar as Scottish Labour’s “brilliant new leader” for the May 6 poll.Starmer said: “After everything we’ve been through in the last year, the last thing we need now is more division.“Yet, in Scotland, the SNP have shown they’re too busy fighting among themselves to fight for the Scottish people.

spending plan put forward by Finance Secretary Kate Forbes was passed with support from Green and Lib Dem MSPs after she reached agreements with both parties on Monday.It will deliver a pay rise for public sector workers, an expansion of the free school meals programme for primary pupils, and free bus travel for those aged 21 and under.But Scottish Labour opposed the Budget after its call for social care workers to receive a pay uplift to £12 an hour was rejected as being too costly.The party

but was removed yesterday after she gave an interview to a pro-independence newspaper in which she shared her support for an IndyRef2.Party bosses insisted she had failed to give assurances she would follow the party whip - but the decision sparked anger among rank and file members.Anas Sarwar - who took charge of Scottish Labour last month - is opposed to a second independence referendum and wants Holyrood to focus instead on the recovery from the pandemic.An open letter from the Glasgow Kelvin