Salmond aide quickly becoming the Walter Mitty of Scottish politics
SNP MSP Joan McAlpine, an aide to the First Minister, has made a series of inaccurate and misleading claims of why Scotland should separate from the United Kingdom. Among them are bizarre statements that under independence, mobile phones "would work" and BBC news presenters would no longer be "hand...
Parenting key in drive to cut crime
Parenting skills in certain groups of society have to improve if children are to be kept out of prison in the future, the Scottish Conservatives have said. Addressing a justice conference, Scottish Conservative MSP Annabel Goldie said in some Scottish communities there was now a third generation of...
More than 100 patients seek additional cancer care
More than 100 patients across Scotland sought cancer treatment last year not routinely available on the NHS, figures obtained by the Scottish Conservatives have shown. The Individual Patient Treatment Requests were lodged by 107 individuals suffering from the disease, and 76 of these were successfu...
SNP has taken five years to bother about victims of crime
The Scottish Government today opened a consultation on how to improve support for victims of crime. Reacting to the publication of Making Justice Work for Victims and Witnesses, Scottish Conservative Chief Whip John Lamont MSP said: "The SNP may be heralding this as some kind of solution for the v...
Support for elected Provosts and reducing the number of quangos
Think tank Reform Scotland has produced a report called "Renewing Local Government", in which it calls for a cut in the number of councils and quangos, and for local authorities to be given more tax raising powers. Other proposals include directly elected provosts and more power to community counci...
Energy funding boost shows the benefits of Scotland being part of the UK
It has been announced that a £9.5million facility will be built at the University of Edinburgh to help develop the latest marine energy technology, including wave power. The initiative is being jointly funded between the university and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (E...
Megrahi passing away still leaves many unanswered questions
It has been reported that the Lockerbie bomber, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, has died. Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale & Tweeddale MP David Mundell, whose constituency area includes Lockerbie, said: "Obviously, one commiserates with family members at the time of a death, whatever the circumstances. "Mr M...
SNP's student fees policy is a complete shambles
The SNP are reportedly considering proposals to charge Scottish students tuition fees, despite ruling out the policy during the 2011 campaign for the Holyrood elections. Education Secretary Mike Russell is apparently considering the plan as a means to also charge EU students, who currently receive ...
Vital that EU member states challenge minimum pricing Bill
The Scottish Conservatives have made a move to encourage EU member states to challenge the SNP's Alcohol (Minimum Pricing) (Scotland) Bill. Health spokesman and deputy leader Jackson Carlaw will travel to Brussels next month for a series of talks with key industry figures and politicians from conce...
Increase in direct payments would reduce need for multiple carers
It was reported today that a dementia patient in Aberdeen had more than 100 carers in the space of a year as he battled the disease. Aberdeen City Council, which last year had a lower-than-average uptake of Direct Payments, has vowed to investigate the case. The Scottish Conservatives have called ...
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