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SNP ministers to pass on funding to cut £100 off energy bills for those in council tax bands A-D

Labour calls on SNP to enhance energy bills support from Westminster

NGS is to loan artworks to China.

National Galleries of Scotland to loan artworks to China

A food delivery driver on an electric bike in Glasgow

Authorities must work together tackling illegal e-bikes and e-scooters Scotsman comment

A reader has proposed an alternative use for the money paid to wind farm companies not to produce energy (Picture: John Devlin)

Readers' Letters: We need new ideas to liven up tired energy debate

John Healey will give his first Budget as Chancellor on Wednesday afternoon (Photo by Annabel Lee-Ellis/PA Wire)

UK Budget: Healey told to 'restore' Scots waters naval vessel patrols

Andy Burnham giving a speech in Motherwell on Friday

Analysis Andy Burnham robs SNP of ammunition by being constructive

Prime Minister Andy Burnham and Scottish Secretary Douglas Alexander during a visit to to a college in Motherwell

Burnham offers Scotland more powers in bid for deeper devolution

Ming Yang planned to build a factory in the Highlands

Exclusive UKGov has 'no detailed assessment' of China battery storage ownership

An SNP MSP has suggested his colleagues at Westminster should not take up their seats (Picture: Parliament TV/PA

Readers' letters: Call SNP's bluff on withdrawal from Westminster

Roz Foyer, general secretary of the STUC.

Exclusive Gender pay gap a 'failure of the state', says top trade unionist

Westminster no more? The SNP should start boycotting the House of Commons, according to one nationalist MSP (Picture: Leon Neal)

SNP to boycott Commons?! The £100K reason why it's not going to happen Scotsman comment

Steven Bonnar crossed his fingers when taking his Commons oath

SNP should consider Westminster abstention 'if impasse isn't broken'

First Minister Alex Salmond and independence supporters before the 2014 referendum (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Scottish independence gets ever closer

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage.

Explainer Why's Westminster debating party donations after Reform receives £72m?

Prime Minister Andy Burnham and First Minister John Swinney.

Scottish independence: Does Andy Burnham really understand Scotland? Rachel Amery

Retail leaders make plea to Westminster and Holyrood after Scottish sales slide

Former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell (Jane Barlow/PA)

Committee to launch party funds probe after Murrell embezzlement

The Scottish Greens have backed a campaign to give the Scottish morning roll UNESCO status

Readers'' Letters: Is Holyrood a disgrace to the Scottish taxpayer?

Prime Minister Andy Burnham

Can Labour maintain the ‘Burnham bounce’? Rachel Amery

Malcolm Offord MSP, Scottish leader of Reform UK

Reform UK's Malcolm Offord diagnosed with prostate cancer

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage enjoying a pint in Clacton after voting in the Clacton by-election

While Farage won big in Clacton, Badenoch’s joking fell flat Brian Monteith

Cabinet Secretary for Economy Stephen Flynn

Sturgeon’s SNP book comments were a ‘mistake’, says Flynn

First Minister John Swinney wants Prime Minister Andy Burnham to reconsider the UK government’s block on plans by a Chinese firm to build a wind turbine factory in Scotland (Picture: Steve Welsh - Pool/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Swinney's stance on Chinese wind factory makes no sense

Scottish Secretary Douglas Alexander (Yui Mok/PA)

Exclusive MPs to meet Scots Secretary to discuss 'Highland premium'

Stephen Gethins, SNP minister for Europe, external affairs and energy

SNP accused of 'shockingly dismissive' attitude over Ming Yang

Rosebank and Jackdaw are contentious topics in the SNP

Swinney accused of 'weakly watching on' in SNP oil and gas 'civil war'

James McGachie is an expert on cybersecurity law

Essential services must be ready for threats to our digital economy

Jemma Neville

Interview: Leither Jemma Neville on her new book, Constitution Street

Clara Ponsati, a former minister in the Catalan devolved government, leaves Edinburgh Sheriff Court following an extradition hearing. The charges against her were later dropped. Picture: Lisa Ferguson

Lack of dialogue '˜could boost Scottish and Catalan independence campaigns'

Cllr Ashley Graczyk quit the Conservative group at City Chambers last week in order to fight for disability rights.

Deaf councillor calls on city to lead way in helping disabled back to work

Picture: Martin Docherty-Hughes MP alongside Loch Lomond Brewery co-owner Euan MacEachern (centre) and sales Manager
George Wotherspoon (left) in the House of Commons, supplied

A taste of Loch Lomond comes to Westminster as craft beer served as guest ale

whisky tax

Scots support calls for cut to whisky tax in budget

Campaigner Michael Baird at the recently closed Bank of Scotland branch in Bonar Bridge. Picture: contributed

Westminster '˜unaware' of impact of rural bank losses

Hanif Kureishi finds writing more pleasurable now he's 'free of the engine of ambition'. Picture: Gary Doak

A life that's stranger than fiction

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David Mundell and Michael Gove to represent UK government at the Royal Highland ...

Exercise classes are just one way to improve the lives of elderly people but councils could do much more by looking at the services they provide and making changes in many areas of care

Keith Robson: Don't forget the old when you vote

Flowers and candle lights on Westminster Bridge, following the Westminster attack. Picture; PA

Westminster attack: PC Palmer set for commemoration at National Memorial

Keith Palmer, 48, who died in the terror attack.

Hero police officer who died in Westminster attack is named

Robert Gordon University's Garthdee campus.

Experts in academia assess impact on the '¨'˜real world'

The study found that 40 per cent of people would be more likely to turn out to vote if they had more information. Picture: Neil Hanna

EU referendum turnout could be damaged by Westminster '˜games'

Cur suidheachain: an Camshronach agus na 56 buill Albannach. Picture: Getty

’S e an rud as cudromaiche Westminster atharrachadh

More than three in five people back a switch to a more proportional Westminster voting system. Picture: PA

Majority back Westminster election ballot reform
MORE than three in five people back a switch to a more proportional Westminster voting system, a poll has found, in fresh evidence of a change in public attitud...

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Airport staff

Cold calls will no longer have to be proved to have caused distress. Picture: PA

Consumers urged to turn tables on nuisance callers

One of the biggest drivers for change has been the massive growth in the use of computers. Picture: Ian Rutherford

Insurance reforms will replace old laws

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Political morality

RBS chairman Sir Philip Hampton has apologised after admitting the bank gave incorrect evidence to MPs. Picture: Phil Wilkinson

RBS chairman sorry for ‘incorrect’ probe evidence

Comments made by George Osborne have put charities in the firing line. Picture: PA

Charities have duty to speak out on social policy

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Norwegian oil

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Redefining the UK

Canon Kenyon Wright, dubbed the Godfather of Devolution by the press, says devolution is no longer enough. Picture: Bill Fleming

Canon Kenyon Wright: A No vote dooms us all

Former MP Cyril Smith, who died in 2010, is implicated in allegations about a paedophile ring. Picture: Getty

Lesley Riddoch: Lost faith in justice system

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Avoidance of risk

1 in 5 certain voters are still unsure which side to back. Picture: Hemedia

Scottish independence poll: 1 in 5 undecided

Scotland will vote on whether to remain part of the UK, or become an independent country in September. Picture: Robert Perry

Independence poll ‘blocked by Westminster’

Steaphan Macrisnidh

Dhìonadh pàrlamaid shaor ar còraichean gu luath ’s gu h-èifeachdach

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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