Westminster is 'accepting' another Scottish independence referendum must happen, claims John Swinney

Janey Godley has thanked her fans for buying her merchandise and raising almost £20,000 for the STV Children's Appeal. Janey Godley is best known for providing the country with light-hearted relief with her sweary takes on the First Minister 's daily speeches on coronavirus in Scotland.

studies.Agriculture student Johanna Maria, 22, is heading to Dundee to research barley breeding for six months, as part of her dissertation.She couldn’t afford the £2000 flight costs for her 14-year-old Shetland pony Hechizo – and couldn’t bear to be without him for such a long time.So she set out from her home in Halle, Germany, in February, with Hechizo – whose name means magic in Spanish – dragging all her belongings on a cart.Her father drove her to Spain for a work placement – and, from

independent "by accident" and Wales could follow, a veteran former Welsh first minister claimed. Carwyn Jones, who served in the post for a decade, said the UK Government has to move to a more equal partnership across all the nations of the UK or watch as the state breaks up.

The Record recently published CCTV evidence of a masked man attacking two BMWs parked on Campbell’s drive in Strathaven, where he serves as a Tory elected member.

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Aberdeen council leader claimed Glasgow escaped a harsher lockdown because it is a "Yes city". Tory Douglas Lumsden suggested it all came down to independence and central belt bias in an angry backlash on social media after Nicola Sturgeon imposed restrictions on the city.

@LabourRichard resigns are the ones who told us that Better Together was a huge success story for Labour and that Jim Murphy was the salvation of the Party - they have been repeatedly wrong and are wrong again - it’s treachery with a snarl.” Leonard is under pressure to quit following a succession of flops at the ballot box.His performances at Holyrood have also alarmed colleagues who believe Labour is headed for a heavy defeat at the Holyrood election.Marra, a List MSP for the north east, told

Richard Leonard has hired a top spin doctor to help turn around his flagging fortunes.Andy Whitaker, who was head of strategic communications for former shadow chancellor John McDonnell, starts in post on Wednesday.Leonard has been in the job for nearly three years, but has suffered devastating defeats at the ballot box.Scottish Labour slumped to fifth at the European election and lost six of their seven seats at the general election.Get all the top Scottish politics news sent straight to your

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Join thousands of others and get the latest Scottish politics news sent straight to your inbox every Friday.Pro-Union campaigners have claimed the UK is "more valuable than ever" to Scotland as the annual report on the nation's finances found its notional deficit has grown again.The 2020 Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland (GERS) publication - which examines how much the country raises in taxes compared to how much it spends on public services - found a gap of £15.1 billion in 2019-20,

Kevin Bridges, Frankie Boyle and Fred MacAulay are among a group of performers calling on the Scottish government to provide emergency funding to help Scotland’s comedy scene survive the Covid-19 pandemic.

The SNP must be 'honest' about the economic reality of Scottish independence in a post-Covid world, pro-Union campaigners have said. It comes as the Scottish Government prepares to publish its annual GERS report this week, which estimates the difference between what Scotland raises in taxation and what is spent on its public services.

Wheel of Fortune host bought the house in Edinburgh’s upmarket Morningside for £545,000 in 2016.In June, Leslie, 55, put the detached villa on the market for offers over £610,000.Property records show he has made a hefty £170,000 on the house after it sold for £715,000 last month.The home, which was built in 2003, has three bedrooms and a back garden boasting views of the city skyline.Ralph Hendrie Legal’s sales brochure said the house has a garden that “overlooks The Hermitage of Braid and

independence with 55% for Yes, a new poll suggests.The survey by Panelbase reflects a reversal of the 2014 referendum which ended 55-45 in favour of staying in the UK.It was commissioned by pro-indy organisation Business for Scotland and is the latest in a run of polls showing a majority wants to end the Union.Crucially, the latest poll shows a slim pro-indy majority when undecided voters are included in the results.It was based on the same question from 2014 when voters were asked: “Should

devolution.The Abolish the Scottish Parliament party launched itself on social media earlier this month and aims to do what it says on the tin - scrap Holyrood and return Scotland to direct rule from London.But the leader of the anti-devolution movement insists he's not being undemocratic with his demands, despite 74% of Scots backing the creation of a parliament at a referendum in 1997.John Mortimer told the Record the reality of devolution in 2020 was very different to the idea Scottish voters

Mae Hamilton A charming contemporary-inspired traditional-style home owned by “Grey’s Anatomy” star Kevin McKidd, a kind-of-Colonial-meets-Cape-Cod mashup, has come available for rent at $15,000 a month. The Scottish actor shelled out a little more than $2.9 million for the family-sized residence a little more than two years ago, but it’s not clear that he ever lived in the house himself.

John Swinney has held on to his job after surviving a no-confidence vote over the pupil grades scandal. He was kept in post after securing the support of the pro-independence Scottish Greens.

Jack McConnell has called for “a clear out at the top” of Scottish education to ditch problems that have been around for more than a decade and restore confidence in the exams system. Speaking ahead of John Swinney’s statement to Holyrood on the exams fiasco the former Labour First Minister said the episode highlighted the need for a major shakedown in Scottish education.