The huge cost of the long-awaited replacement for Barlinnie is only the latest example of a failure to keep a tight grip on ...

Scotland’s Tax Strategy is welcome but says little concrete about tax policy. And some actual tax policy is divorced from any ...

The cost of building a new jail in Scotland's biggest city has soared ten-fold to nearly £1billion as a result of the SNP 's ...

Libraries must remain the ‘beating heart’ of Scottish communities - Libraries are special places and must be protected.

The SNP Scottish Government has survived the first test for its Budget attracting support from both the Scottish Liberal Democrats and the Scottish Greens. The SNP’s finance plans for 2025/26 passed ...

The National Library of Scotland will celebrate its 100th birthday with a full year long birthday programme of events. National Librarian Amina Shah said: “A century ago, we were established in the ...

THE Scottish Government has insisted it has not axed spending on independence campaigning – after the LibDems claimed victory in ...

AS we celebrated our national Bard, Robert Burns, I was asked to comment on an article on a “lad culture” in Scottish politics, a term ...

For background, Ellisland Farm in rural southwest Scotland was built by Robert Burns. He wrote some of his best-known works while at Ellisland, including Auld Lang Syne. The site still has the ...

Edinburgh City Council has voted to enforce a 5% charge on overnight stays in a bid to use the area's booming tourist trade to the local authority's advantage, but critics have hit back ...

SNOW and ice warnings have been issued to Brits as Storm Eowyn continues to batter parts of the UK. THE Met Office have urged ...

Met Office amber and yellow warnings remain in place into Saturday.