Wishaw MSP and Labour candidate clash over lack of funding in town

Scottish Government won't offer the full legal advice to the Holyrood committee looking at the handling of sexual misconduct complaints against Alex Salmond.The Scottish Conservative MSP took to Twitter last night claiming the material being released by the government to the inquiry won't "give the full picture" and will "paint them in a good light".It comes after the Tories tabled a no confidence motion, which was backed by other opposition parties at Holyrood, in the Deputy First Minster John

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

Trident submarines are based on the Clyde.The SNP is opposed to nuclear weapons for an independent Scotland but is committed to being in the Nato nuclear umbrella.In a speech to the Royal United Service Institute, Healey will attempt to move on from Jeremy Corbyn’s outspoken reluctance to back the nuclear deterrent which was seen as one of the reasons Labour was viewed by many voters as being “unpatriotic” in the 2019 election.Healey will say Labour’s commitment to NATO is “unshakeable”.He will

Jackie Baillie, made the call as part of a wider campaign to improve pay and conditions after a “heroic” year of effort.She based the calculation of figures showing 206,400 people in the sector are on the median wage of £9.50 an hour.Baillie said: “Our heroic social care workers, on whom we have all relied during this pandemic, have been undervalued and underpaid for too long.“Hundreds of thousands of predominantly female social care workers are languishing on poverty pay, while many of those

interviewed by Oprah Winfrey will be re-edited as tension between them and the Royal Family continues to bubble.This week, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex confirmed they will not be returning as working members of the Royal Family and also revealed that they would be taking part in a tell-all interview with Oprah, which reportedly 'blindsided' the Queen.The couple, known when in Scotland as the Earl and Countess of Dumbarton, say they will continue to support organisations they have formally

Channel 5 bosses have been blasted for 'giving a platform' to convicted killer of Scots schoolgirl Jodi Jones as he launches a fresh bid to clear his name.Luke Mitchell has been in jail for 17 years after being convicted of the brutal slaying of Jodi near her home in Easthouses, Midlothian in 2003.The pair were both just 14 at the time of the incident.Now as part of a new two-part Channel Five documentary called Murder in a Small Town, Mitchell has spoken about how his gothic looks had made it

Scottish Child Payment launched on Monday but only 77,000 applications had been received as of last Sunday from an estimated total of 138,000 eligible households. Parents and carers who receive other welfare support - such as Universal Credit - are able to apply for the payment for each child under the age of six, with the benefit being rolled out for all qualifying under-16s by 2022.

Scottish Government’s children’s minister, after apparently swearing at her during a Holyrood meeting.

is on course for a majority of seats at May's Holyrood election while support for independence has also climbed over the last 12 months.Carwyn Jones, who led Welsh Labour from 2009 until 2018, said this popularity was partly a response to the "English nationalist" outlook of the UK Government led by Johnson.He said it would be "very difficult to oppose" for the Prime Minister to oppose an IndyRef2 if the Nationalists won a majority as expected.And the former Welsh Assembly leader warned that

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.The SNP’s continued silence around the probe into Derek Mackay is a slight on the teenager he bombarded with messages and those who voted for him.That was the message from Neil Bibby MSP, who has challenged the SNP to bring the saga to end.Disgraced Mackay resigned as Finance Minister on the eve of the Scottish budget last year after it was reported he had repeatedly text a 16-year-old boy and callied him

link!“While council leaders from other parts of Scotland have been pressing ministers on funding, the SNP here have been silent. They have a responsibility to shield communities from austerity, but they’d rather shield Nicola Sturgeon from the blame.“If they won’t stand up for local people now, they never will.“With an absence of political leadership at the SNP council, it falls to Labour to expose the scandal of South Lanarkshire’s missing millions.

Airdrie and Coatbridge Advertiser: “It once again fails to provide sufficient funding to maintain vital local services in our communities – the proposed settlement to all councils falls well short of the increase in the Scottish Government’s budget from Westminster.

radio phone-in was caught nearly five times the drink-drive limit after smashing into a parked car.Lisa McMillan, 47, made the “stupid” decision to visit friends in Brechin, Angus, after drinking wine with her husband.She’d scooped £19,018.17 on the Radio Tay FM cash register competition the previous day, a court heardMcMillan, the boss of a plumbing firm got behind the wheel after midnight but was so inebriated she shunted a parked car yards down the road after crashing into it.It was her

Storm Darcy.Using skis, snowboards and "anything from their homes", revellers flocked to the area last night after the city was blanketed in snow.Freezing conditions blanketed the city in snow over night, turning the West End park into a scene from the Alps.However, the images prompted concern from some residents over the lack of social distancing in place.Dozens of people were pictured huddled up along the park’s banks, despite the recommended two metre distance.In one image, a wall of people

Scottish Government paid thousands of pounds to a team of top lawyers to try to block MSPs probing Alex Salmond’s botched sexual harassment case from hearing key evidence. The Sunday Mail has obtained ­documents showing a firm – hired using public cash – demanded ­investigating ­committee members give written guarantees they wouldn’t ask a ­senior official crucial questions.

Nicola Sturgeon has revealed her heartache over the death of Scotland’s first Asian MSP Bashir Ahmad.The First Minister took to social media to describe her continuing “sense of shock and heartbreak” on the twelfth anniversary of his death.In a poignant tribute, she said still missed the Glasgow politician who died at the age of 68.The First Minister wrote: “12 years ago today this special man left us.