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Salmond remembered in Edinburgh
Alex Salmond was remembered in the High Kirk in Edinburgh in a service which his friends said he would have loved.
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Alex Salmond’s body to be flown back to Scotland
A private individual has stepped in to pay the cost of bringing Alex Salmond's body back to Scotland from North Macedonia.
The Scottish Government...
Salmond criticises council for destroying businesses with tram works on visit to Leith
Alex Salmond has criticised Edinburgh City Council for "destroying businesses" with tram works as he visited Leith on the campaign trail.
The Alba leader and former...
#SP2021 – Alba fielding four candidates in Lothian
The leader of the Alba party, Scotland's newest political party, Alex Salmond, is very used to the press. He is a former First Minister...
Alex Salmond launches new political party
Former First Minister, Alex Salmond, has announced the creation of a new pro-independence party which will stand in the Scottish Parliament election. He said the...
Letter from Scotland
We 62 per cent Remainers, can hardly bear to watch the Battle of Brexit going on at Westminster. It looks like one of the...
Letter from Scotland
“Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.” As ever, Shakespeare has it right. The festivals are over, the streets are quiet again, the...
Alex Salmond denies sexual harassment complaints
Former First Minister Alex Salmond faces complaints of sexual harassment arising during his time at Holyrood.
This has been revealed in a series of tweets...
Alex Salmond Unleashed is back on the road
As he told me in New York, Alex Salmond is touring with his Unleashed show this week to both Dundee and Edinburgh when his...
#NYCTW 2018 – A chance meeting with Scotland’s former First Minister
I walked into an Irish bar in Manhattan which is festooned with Saltires and who was sitting on a bar stool but....Alex Salmond..
The former...
Lights, Camera, Salmond!
For “whom the gods would destroy they first make mad” said Prometheus, as he learned of Alex Salmond’s new RT-backed television show....
After more than twenty...
Letter from Scotland
I see them every morning “creeping like a snail unwillingly to school”. They’re back. The new term began this week for Scotland’s 700,000 school...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Alex Salmond Unleashed
Not many of the other performers at the Fringe have the career backdrop of having been the leader of a country of around 5...
Alex Salmond Unleashed – another night added
Just as we are recovering from the press conference that Alex Salmond held this morning and editing our video, we have heard that his...
Letter from Scotland
She’s been sent home to think again…..Theresa May about Brexit, Nicola Sturgeon about a second independence referendum. And, in a way, we’ve all been...
Alex Salmond to deliver inaugural Thomas Muir Memorial Lecture
'We have achieved a great duty in these critical times...we have been the first to revive the spirit of our country and give it...
Letter from Scotland
Forty years ago the new Longannet power station was a big story for me. I was an apprentice journalist on the Alloa Advertiser and the...
Letter from Scotland
“At this time of the rolling year I suffer most,” says the ghost in Dickens’ ‘Christmas Carol’ as he compares the world around him...
First Minister’s memorabilia raises funds for charity
Gifts and memorabilia received by former First Minister Alex Salmond have raised more than £42,000 for charity in an auction this afternoon.
More than three...
Letter from Scotland
Our new leader Nicola Sturgeon may not yet have declared Scottish independence but we are setting out on a different road from the rest...
Letter from Scotland
I have in my hand a half-penny minted in 1914. It’s worn and faded, almost black with age, but you can still see King...
Government allocates funding for war memorials
A further twenty war memorials across Scotland will be restored to their former glory after being awarded grants totalling £160,000, First Minister Alex Salmond...
Government committee meets to discuss Ebola
With the world watching West Africa, and the incidence of cases in the US and in Spain, it is clear that the matter of...
Letter from Scotland
We are now into the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. Low sunshine is lighting up the yellowing trees. The days are getting cooler,...
Salmond’s resignation sparks leadership question
First Minister Alex Salmond has said that the independence movement will go on but his time as leader of the SNP and thus as...
Letter from Scotland
On a dull, misty, September day, Scotland reluctantly decided to stay with the rest of Britain, for better or for worse, and we lost...
Letter from Scotland
“Don’t panic!” But of course they did. The Dad’s Army from the south came north with just a week to go before the referendum...
Letter from Scotland
The end of the Festival is always a sad time for me. It marks the end of the summer. On Sunday night I’ll be...
Letter from Scotland
What is a nation ? Is it a geographical place or a people or a culture or a language or an economic territory or...
Man arrested following offensive tweets about First Minister
Police arrested a 43-year-old man in East Lothian yesterday in connection with alleged offensive online tweets posted about First Minister Alex Salmond.
The man was...
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