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Labour minister snubs Glasgow asylum seeker crisis talks

The UK is the largest hub for games development in Europe by headcount (Picture: Adobe)

Why we need to power up support for the UK video games industry

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Missed opportunity to tackle poverty and bolster public services Jamie Livingstone

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No Spring Statement relief for hospitality

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves leaving 11 Downing Street, London, for the House of Commons to deliver her spring statement to MPs. Picture: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

Spring Statement 2025 RECAP: Rachel Reeves outlines spending cuts

Explainer What the Chancellor's Spring Statement means for Scotland

Energy Security Ed Miliband, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar at the Port of Greenock

Anas Sarwar raises potential split with UK Labour over oil future

An oil rig in the North Sea

North Sea 'could produce half all UK oil and gas in run up to 2050'

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and First Minister John Swinney

John Swinney warns UK cuts poised to be 'damaging' for Scotland's NHS

Mothers in Edinburgh will go on hunger strike outside Queen Elizabeth House.

'The most awful things' Edinburgh mothers on hunger strike for 5 days

SNP set for Labour benefits funds collision to rescue poverty targets

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Exclusive GB Energy can turn Scottish Labour’s polling around - minister

Jake Landman, Partner and tax disputes specialist, Pinsent Masons

New tax plans for oil and gas sector are in the pipeline

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World Oral Health Day: A quarter of parents ‘forget’ to brush their kids teeth

Helen Barnard, director of policy at Trussell

Majority of UK voters agree UK Government is responsible for ensuring disabled p...

Hopes are rising that a long-term future for the Grangemouth industrial hub can be drawn up (Picture: Lisa Ferguson/National World)

Analysis Saving Grangemouth needs cash and political will to become a reality

Ineos announced the closure of its oil refinery in Grangemouth last year

Grangemouth: Project Willow report unveils plans for 800 jobs

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves and Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary Ed Miliband during a meeting of the National Wealth Fund Taskforce in 11 Downing Street. PIC: Justin Tallis/PA Wire

Ed Miliband reveals deadline for Scotland's carbon capture approval

Brian Cox will be making one of his last stage performances in a satire about banker Fred Goodwin and the 2008 financial crash (Picture: Lia Toby)

Brian Cox tells of his 'brutal reality of poverty' in Scottish city

Shirley-Anne Somerville and Liz Kendall

Benefit reforms may have 'severe' impact on Scottish budget, warns SNP

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar

'This is not austerity': Sarwar defends cutting billions in benefits

Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall making a statement on welfare reform in the House of Commons

Explainer Benefits overhaul: How does the welfare crackdown impact Scotland?

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer believes the Government has a “moral responsibility” to reform welfare

SNP calls for '11th-hour U-turn’ by Starmer on ‘shameful’ benefit cuts

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Chancellor Rachel Reeves.

Why Labour cuts to disability benefits are ‘completely unpalatable’

Keir Starmer is making tough decisions

Cuts are popular but that doesn’t make them right Alexander Brown

Glasgow must take chance of Commonwealth Games legacy - Whittle

The Chancellor faces a difficult battle to rebuild the economy

Spring Statement risks Scottish Budget hit and forcing SNP tax review

Chancellor Rachel Reeves

Analysis Reeves was tight-lipped on details, but difficult weeks lie ahead

Jeremy Clarkson was one of many farmers to protest over the changes to inheritance tax

Exclusive Lib Dem MP urges ministers to help farmers with universal credit

A muzzle flash lights up pine trees as the British Army's new Archer Mobile Howitzer gun fires, as British Army soldiers take part in training near Rovaniemi in the Arctic Circle, Finland, in November 2024.

Rachel Reeves unveils £2bn boost for UK defence sector

Green Growth Awards announces winners

Business stories in 2 minutes: Trump tariffs threat to steel industry

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves meets military personnel. Credit: Dan Kitwood/PA Wire

Disability benefits likely to be cut to fund defence spending

There is a drive to reskill North Sea oil and gas workers to undertake renewables work.

Labour's North Sea plan to create new energy jobs despite oil decline

IJBs are tasked with integrating health and social care

Integration joint boards funding gap hits £450m amid call for action

The UK Government said it would unleash the North Sea’s clean energy future

Oil and gas windfall tax to end in 2030, UK Government confirms

President Volodymyr Zelensky and President Donald Trump clashed in the Oval Office.

UK 'absolutely committed' as US pauses all military aid to Ukraine

Scottish Secretary Ian Murray, photographed inside a rescue submersible on a visit to the Renfrew site of defence contractor JFD Global on Monday, hailed the announcement as good news for communities across Scotland

10 locations in Scotland that will get up to £20m each to regenerate

The Climate Change Committee says oil and gas companies cannot be trusted with the just transition.

Oil and gas giants cannot be trusted with the just transition

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer leaves the Downing Street Briefing Romm after delivering Tuesday's defence spending statement. (Picture: Leon Neal/PA Wire)

Readers' letters: Government plumbs new depths with international aid betrayal

The Scottish Government will not revise its flawed gender recognition laws

Exclusive SNP will not bring forward revised gender recognition laws

• People living, working and visiting Tobermory and Aros on the Isle of Mull, are benefiting from one of the latest of the 10 government-funded mobile network upgrades across the Scotland that have went live

UK Government-funded mobile phone mast upgrades hit 10 mast milestone in Scotlan...
Ten government-funded mast upgrades have now been activated in Scotland as part of the Shared Rural Network (SRN) – a programme brokered by the UK government an...

The Scottish Government is set to debate the sale of arms to Israel

Exclusive Holyrood 'over-reaching' with debate on Israel arm sales, Tory says

The Petroineos oil refinery at Grangemouth

Grangemouth funding has to be done 'at incredible pace' to save jobs

The Grangemouth industrial hub (Photo by Jane Barlow/PA)

Keir Starmer announces £200m to kickstart future of Grangemouth

The Grangemouth industrial hub could be prolonged by being connected to a long-delayed carbon capture project in the North East (Photo by Jane Barlow/PA)

Exclusive Project Willow: Trees, waste and wind will transform Grangemouth

Keir Starmer and his Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, need to find some green shoots of economic recovery (Picture: Carl Court)

Exclusive Two-thirds of Scots 'lost trust' in Labour to kickstart economy

Pro-Palestine protesters hold demo outside Scottish Labour conference

SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn has written to the leader of the Commons

Exclusive SNP's Flynn demands Parliament time to pass Waspi women compensation

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UK must not respond to every Trump 'twist and turn', says Starmer ally

Scotch Whisky faces the highest tax rate in any G7 country, and will now rise further.

English ‘single malt’ whisky - and why it could ‘undermine’ Scotch

Whisky Tasting

Plans to 'legally define' English whisky would 'sabotage' Scotch

John Swinney tours the Harland and Wolff Methil yard site (Picture: Jane Barlow/PA Wire)

Analysis Swinney's energy fury is distraction from SNP's climate failures

Petroineos plan to close the Grangemouth refinery. Pic: Michael Gillen

John Swinney vows £25m Grangemouth fund to kickstart green future

Campaigners take part in a Stop Rosebank emergency protest outside the UK government building in Edinburgh. PIC: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

Exclusive Rosebank approval poised to open floodgates to 13 North Sea projects

Elaine MacGregor, Legal Director and investment funds specialist at Pinsent Masons (Picture: Peter Devlin)

Goernment reforms aim to make pension funds more UK-centric

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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

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SNP MP cleared of bullying Nadine Dorries