The Scottish Government has shelved or paused key measures to tackle rising obesity levels, it has confirmed. Public health minister Jenni Minto revealed the government will not take forward proposals ...

Scottish Labour leadership contender Joe Fagan has pledged to lobby the UK Government to approve two new oil fields in the North Sea. Jackdaw, 150 miles off the coast of Aberdeen, and Rosebank, off ...

How does the new parliament elect a presiding officer? After MSPs have been sworn in, the first task of a new parliament is selecting a presiding officer. It is expected this will happen on Thursday, ...

With Anas Sarwar set to quit so he can take up a post in the Lords, that leaves the party once more on the lookout for ...

Joe Fagan has announced that he will run in Scottish Labour’s leadership race. Elected as an MSP in May, Fagan has said that ...

Andy Burnham has appointed eight Scottish MPs to PPS roles as he continues to set up his government. The prime minister has ...

Sir Ian Wood's family confirmed he died “peacefully at home, surrounded by his family” on Sunday evening at his home in ...

When Professor Sue Black was nine years old, she was raped by a man she vaguely knew. He left her alone and bleeding and with the threat ringing in her ears that she must never tell anyone. And she ...

“Time really is running out” for Scottish Labour after this year’s election defeat, a senior MSP has said. The party suffered ...

Michael Marra and Monica Lennon are the first two candidates to confirm their candidacies for the leadership of Scottish Labour. The party must elect a successor to Anas Sarwar after he accepted the ...

“Rural’s not sexy,” says the convener of the Scottish Parliament’s Rural Affairs and Islands Committee, Finlay Carson. He’s musing on the difficulty of getting issues that matter to rural Scotland to ...

Flynn held the seat for the SNP with a reduced share of the vote and a majority of just 1,244 votes (or 3.6 per cent), with ...