The Scottish Government was ‘utterly irresponsible’ in the way it handled a botched recycling scheme, a court heard yesterday. Lord Alister Jack said Holyrood’s attempts to implement a deposit return ...

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Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana launched Your Party in July Three Scottish Green councillors in Glasgow have defected to Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana's Your Party. Dan Hutchison, Seonad Hoy and ...

Douglas Alexander has lost one of his key aides just weeks after he was appointed Scottish Secretary. The Record understands Ross MacRae has resigned for family reasons as a special advisor to the ...

Scotland's priciest streets have been unveiled, and all of them are located in a single city. The capital Edinburgh has long been home to the most lavish avenues, a fact that is echoed in recent ...

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NORRISTOWN — A Chester County woman is headed to jail for embezzling more than $270,000 while she was a school administrator at the Penn Christian Academy in East Norriton Township, betraying the ...

John Swinney has said that Scotland and its government has a "moral obligation" to support countries facing severe effects of climate change. The first minister made the remarks during a visit to ...

Simply sign up to the UK energy myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The owner of Scottish Power has sounded out rivals about a possible deal with its UK retail business as the sector ...

Claire Leveque was a young Alberta woman who had travelled to Scotland with a boyfriend when she was brutally stabbed and drowned by the man in an act of “feral butchery,” a judge said Wednesday. In ...

Chinese company Ming Yang has announced plans to build the UK’s largest wind turbine manufacturing facility in Scotland. The firm projects an investment of up to £1.5 billion, creating 1,500 jobs.