Cartoons of the week

Cartoonists Iain Green and Brian Adcock offer their satirical take on the week’s news.

The issue of universal benefits continued to be the talk of Holyrood, while Alex Salmond enjoyed a weekend trip to Medinah to watch Europe triumph in the Ryder Cup.

Labour leader Ed Miliband made his pitch to the public at the party conference in Manchester, where he tried to convey the image of a man who is in touch with the everyday challenges facing ‘One Nation’.

There was further embarrassment for the Government when it was announced that the deal for the West Coast rail franchise would be scrapped - meaning FirstGroup and Virgin will have to fight it out all over again.

And the week ended with a row over the BBC’s axing of Jim McColl’s Beechgrove Potting Shed on Radio Scotland.