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A traveller family pictured near Pitlochry in 1958.

Pressure mounts on SNP Government to apologise for 'Tinker Experiment'

Council tax bands are based on valuations from 1991

MSPs vote down council tax reform despite agreeing situation 'absurd'

Plans to create a national park in Galloway have proved controversial

Scottish Government ditches plans to create Galloway National Park

Galloway Forest Park

Ministers told to ignore 'land-owning lobbyists' as park axe looms

A family of travellers at their camp near Pitlochry in 1958

Exclusive SNP ministers told to issue apology for 'disgraceful persecution'

Maggie Chapman. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Chapman poised for crunch vote after Supreme Court outburst

Scottish Greens co-leaders Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater (Picture: Jane Barlow)

Readers' Letters: New guidelines on single-sex spaces seem fair

Scottish Green co-leaders Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater with former first minister Nicola Sturgeon after signing the Bute House Agreement in 2021.

Analysis Bute House Agreement: What has been ditched one year on

Scottish Green MSP Maggie Chapman has been criticised for accusing the Supreme Court of 'bigotry, prejudice and hatred' (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty)

Readers' letters: Misuse of language will lead to 'bigotry fatigue'

Scottish Green MSP Maggie Chapman has not apologised for her unjustified attack on the Supreme Court following its ruling about the definition of the word 'woman' (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell)

MSP's attack on Supreme Court was straight out of Trump's playbook Scotsman comment

Money stacked on top of a council tax bill. PIC: Danny Lawson/PA Wire

Plans tabled for first council tax revaluation in more than 30 years

For Women Scotland campaigners outside the UK Supreme Court.

Green MSP criticised for accusing Supreme Court of 'bigotry'

Swede Greta Thunberg came to prominence as a teenage climate activist but lately has been condemning Israel's response to the 2023 Hamas attacks. Picture: Thomas Lohnes/Getty Images

Readers' Letters: When did 'activism' become a career in itself?

First Minister John Swinney and other SNP supporters backing the Yes campaign.

Poll suggests support for Scottish independence is at an 11-point lead

Scottish Greens rule out doing a deal with Labour

Scot Squad's Chief Commissioner Cameron Miekelson (Jack Docherty) - master of all he surveys (Picture: Jamie Simpson/BBC Pictures)

Readers' letters: Chief Miekelson's 'bams' appear in many guises today

Patrick Harvie

Analysis Harvie's resignation was coming, but leaves Greens with a tricky path

Scottish Greens co-leaders Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater

Patrick Harvie to stand down as co-leader of the Scottish Greens

Members of 40 Days for Life, which campaigns against abortion, take part in a "prayer vigil" outside the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow

Why are anti-abortion protests still happening in buffer zones?

Swinney told to publish boiler ban plan amid 'damaging' business fears

First Minister John Swinney campaigning with Education Secretary Jenny Gilruth and David Torrance MSP.

'Inevitable' SNP will be at the core of the next Holyrood government

Councillor Alex Staniforth

Charity criticises 'veiled threat' against its funding in trans row

Solar panels on the roof of a property

Exclusive Solar panels on newbuilds 'wasting the sun', Scottish firm warns

Scotland 4 Decrim campaigners

Exclusive Self-defence class for sex workers set up over law change fears

The Scottish Government will not revise its flawed gender recognition laws

Exclusive SNP will not bring forward revised gender recognition laws

BP will ramp up its oil and gas production.

'Climate vandalism': BP to increase oil and gas production

Plans for the resort have met with strong opposition

Flamingo Land developers accused of 'distortion' over £40m resort

US President Donald Trump has been accused of calling for ethnic cleansing

'Dangerous': Swinney leads scathing response to Trump’s Gaza claim

Nicola Sturgeon interview - the SNP reset that 'didn't happen' and Humza Yousaf's 'catastrophic' error

Nicola Sturgeon claims intended SNP Government reset 'didn't happen'

Heathrow could be expanding

UK Government backs third Heathrow runway

Gamekeepers have urged the successor to former Scottish Greens co-leader and minister in charge of deer management Lorna Slater to scrap proposals for out-of-season deer cull

Scottish Greens-led deer cull proposals axed after welfare concerns

Picture: PA Wire

Biffa given green light to sue Scottish Government for £160m over DRS

John Swinney

Analysis Why Swinney and the SNP should be quietly confident after Budget win

Students eating their lunch in the school canteen. PIC: Ben Birchall/PA Wire

Free school meals and hospice funding agreed in Budget support deal

John Swinney during the first First Minister's Questions of the new year at the Scottish Parliament. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

SNP to water down National Care Service to find 'common ground'

Scotland Office minister Kirsty McNeill

'Removed from reality': Labour claims it has ended austerity

Patrick Harvie

Harvie to take time away from Holyrood due to medical procedure

Children attending school (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell)

SNP told to axe 'restrictive conditions' denying ASN pupils care plans

The Greens said the tobacco and vaping industries are poorly regulated

Ministers urged to introduce licensing scheme for tobacco and vapes

John Swinney, Russell Findlay and Anas Sarwar

Analysis What Holyrood party leaders will have on New Year's wishlist for 2025

John Swinney has said the Scottish Government will give 'serious consideration' to creating a standalone criminal offence of non-fatal strangulation (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

'Wiped out': Swinney gives honest assessment of SNP's election rout

At FMQ's this week Patrick Harvie called Donald Trump a “misogynist, a climate denier, a fraudster, a conspiracy monger, a racist...” (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Harvie's comments on Trump are a danger to Scotland

Donald Trump has been elected as the 47th President of the US.

Swinney blasted over congratulations for 'misogynist' Donald Trump

The Scottish Greens want a ban on private sales

'Dangerous time': Call to ban private sale of fireworks in Scotland

Progress in heat pump installations could stall amid cuts to Home Energy Scotland’s advice service Photo: Alamy/PA.

Exclusive SNP green energy cuts puts 'significant numbers' of jobs at risk

The House of Lords

'Embarrassment': Push to ban peers from the Scottish Parliament

There should be a level playing field with the rest of the UK in the housing market (Picture: John Devlin)

Punishing homeowners with high taxes won’t end well - David Alexander

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Scotland has failed to meet its latest target for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, the latest official figures show. Picture: John Giles/PA Wire

Fail: Scotland misses climate target

Pro-independence protesters with Scottish Saltire flags (top) march for Scottish independence. Picture: Andy Buchanan/AFP via Getty Images

Yousaf: Growing popular support for Yes the only way to Scottish independence

Nadine Dorries. Picture: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

SNP MP cleared of bullying Nadine Dorries