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Nicola Sturgeon to use her conference speech to highlight need for optimism
Addressing delegates at the SNP Conference in Glasgow today (Tuesday), SNP Leader Nicola Sturgeon will say that optimism and hope are needed more than...
Scots’ stars praise government funding for SWNT players to train full-time
Two of the Scotland Women’s squad who made history by qualifying for the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup believe that Scottish Government funding will...
Holyrood is back to business with a new programme
On Tuesday 4 September The Scottish Government will publish its programme for the new session and the new year of parliament.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon...
First Minister leading business delegation to Berlin today
The First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is heading up a delegation of business representatives which is going to Berlin today. 12 companies are sending delegates....
First Minister heads to Brussels
The First Minister will be in Brussels tomorrow for a variety of engagements including a meeting with the EU's Chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier...
Letter from Scotland
If Rabbie could see us now he would be more than a little scunnered. Here we are squabbling over which flag should be flown...
Sturgeon opens conference in Edinburgh
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon opened a conference attended by some of the world's leading economists in Edinburgh earlier today explaining some of the economic...
Letter from Scotland
It was the week of the Great Relaunch last week.
Not since the launching of the Great Michael in 1511 has Scotland set out on...
First Minister and Tina Brown at Beyond Borders
It is not an easy challenge for a politician to turn from answering questions to becoming the interrogator, but at Beyond Borders, the annual...
First Minister turns the tables on Women in the World’s Tina Brown
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon will interview journalist and equalities champion Tina Brown at this year’s Beyond Borders festival on Sunday.
The interview follows former Tatler...
First Minister’s expenses for US trip released
The First Minister's trip to the US interested The Edinburgh Reporter, particularly the second half of it, as she arrived in New York when...
Letter from Scotland
It’s always surprising to see your own country from afar. A few days ago I found myself in a village hall in the hedge-rowed...
Letter from Scotland
The market cross in Edinburgh has seen a lot of history pass by. It’s been there, in one form or another, since 1365, the...
Letter from Scotland
There is something magical, almost sacred, about the verdict of the people as expressed through the ballot box. Whatever the predictions, there is that...
Letter from Scotland
Can our national shepherdess save her flock? I am, of course, referring to the SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon, or to Kezia Dugdale the Labour...
#SP16 SNP launch their ‘most ambitious’ manifesto yet
The SNP manifesto will be launched at the EICC this morning by the party leader and First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.
In it the SNP are...
First Minister official patron of The Scotland Women’s National Team
The Scotland Women’s National Team has announced Nicola Sturgeon as their official Patron.
Scotland National Coach Anna Signeul and her squad were invited to Bute House,...
Letter from Scotland
Comrade Nicola Sturgeon is leading the revolution once again. She has called all the Soviets together to declare that Scotland stands ready to take...
Letter from Scotland
Oh happy day ! For 132,000 young Scots, the exam season is over. It all began with drama and economics on 28th April and...
Letter from Scotland
I am in mourning for a lovely old building on Royal Deeside which has gone up in smoke. No, not Balmoral Castle but the...
Prime Minister visits Edinburgh
The Prime Minister David Cameron paid a visit to Bute House earlier today to hold talks with the First Minister Nicola Sturgeon. More powers...
Letter from Scotland
We have had two slight distractions from the election campaign this week. One was the good weather which, for a brief moment, gave us...
Sturgeon calls for Labour backing for NHS funding plans
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon was out campaigning in Portobello this morning, meeting the party faithful and chatting with locals. Many babies were chatted to and about with...
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...
First Minister pledges increasing funding for childcare
The First Minister the Rt Hon Nicola Sturgeon has promised that there will be twice as much spent on free nursery places, early learning...
Letter from Scotland
We’ve been battening down the hatches in more senses than one this week. The usual January storms seem to have no end and no...
Letter from Scotland
We are entering the season of storms. Already a lively wind is blowing about the house as I write and the forecast for 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...
Letter from Scotland
“I vow to thee my country…” takes on yet another meaning this week.We sang it at school to that stirring tune, Jupiter from Gustav...
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...
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