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Government issues Covid Secure advice for business
The UK Government has now issued its advice to businesses in England to prepare for a return to work where possible.
This was mentioned...
Celebrations and silence and prayer to mark 75th anniversary of VE Day #VEDay75
A two minute silence will be held tomorrow 8 May 2020 at 11am, to remember and thank those who fought during the Second World...
Childcare for key workers – guidance now published
Criteria provided to local authorities to determine local need.
Guidance on childcare provision for key workers has been published.
Following the decision to close schools and...
UK Government announces science funding for Scottish universities
Five Scottish universities are to share in a pot of funding from the UK Government announced today.
The overall investment for the UK of...
Government investment in supercomputing includes Edinburgh
The UK Government's Business and Energy Secretary, Alok Sharma, has announced £1.2 billion of investment over the next decade, in a state of the...
Brexit deal struck this morning
The details are yet to be seen and pulled apart but the Prime Minister has indicated that a new deal has been done with...
Court of Session rejects application to stop prorogation
Lord Doherty at the Court of Session in Edinburgh has handed down his decision this morning in the petition by Joanna Cherry QC MP...
Over 20,000 people in Edinburgh could lose free TV licence
Around 21,408 people in Edinburgh will be hit by the BBC’s recent decision to scrap the free TV licence for over-75s, new figures have...
Macdonald claims UK Government creating a hostile environment for Edinburgh festivals
PERFORMERS FORCED TO CANCEL TRIPS DUE TO VISA CONTROLS
The UK Government’s hostile immigration policy is having a ‘truly devastating’ impact on the ability to...
Cross party motion of no confidence in the government lodged at Westminster
The SNP, Liberal Democrats, Plaid Cymru and the Greens have tabled a vote of no confidence in the UK government.It follows an amendment from...
MSP says Scotland is ‘open for business’
FOREIGN INVESTMENT UP 7% ACROSS SCOTLAND
SCOTLAND SECOND MOST ATTRACTIVE PART OF UK FOR INVESTORS
MSP Gordon Macdonald says that new stats from business consultancy EY...
MSP accuses Tory welfare cuts for losses to Edinburgh
SNP MSP FOR EDINBURGH PENTLANDS GORDON MACDONALD DEMANDS DEVOLUTION OF SOCIAL SECURITY POWERS
Freedom of Information figures supplied by the Department for Work and Pensions have shown...
Damian Green signs Edinburgh and South East Scotland City deal
The First Secretary of State and Minister for the Cabinet Office, Damian Green signed the City Region Deal for Edinburgh and South East Scotland...
Scrap the Rape Clause Demo on Thursday
Tomorrow evening in George Square, Glasgow there will be a protest against the Family Cap and Rape Clause. More details on Facebook here.
The protest...
Civil Service Fast Track Apprenticeship programme open now
The Civil Service Fast Track Apprenticeship programme is now open for applications.
There are up to 50 positions available across Scotland. The Civil Service...
All Edinburgh MPs vote against Brexit bill
Edinburgh Members of Parliament have been unanimous in their opposition to the Brexit bill otherwise known more formally as the European Union (Notification of Withdrawal)...
Trident missile failure: just how safe is the UK’s nuclear deterrent?
by Robert J Downes, King's College London
The Sunday Times has caused a furore by reporting that a 2016 test of the UK’s submarine-borne strategic nuclear...
Happy New Year messages from the Prime Minister and First Minister
First of all Prime Minister Theresa May explains that we have made a momentous decision and set ourselves in a new direction.
She says in the...
First Minister to make speech in London today
Later today the First Minister Nicola Sturgeon will make a speech as one of the keynote speakers at the Institute of Directors Annual Convention...
Future of Energy in Scotland to be debated today
The effects the UK-wide vote to leave the EU will have on Scotland’s energy sector will be discussed at the first of two summits...
A Week at Westminster
On Wednesday the Queen's Speech brought a little pomp and circumstance to Westminster.
Speaking ahead of the Conservative majority government’s first Queen’s Speech, Labour’s Shadow...
Government names more minimum wage offenders
The UK Government announced earlier in the week another 70 companies and businesses which have failed to comply with the minimum wage legislation which...
Ewing calls for return of coal cash
Energy Minister Fergus Ewing has accused the UK Government of showing ‘disrespect’ to coal communities across Scotland, as they fail to answer calls for...
Edinburgh MP’s anger over East Coast
Edinburgh East MP Sheila Gilmore has campaigned tirelessly alongside other local Labour politicians against the plans to reprivatise the East Coast line since these...
Federation of Small Businesses Annual Dinner
The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) held their annual dinner tonight in the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. They listened to a speech by the Secretary...
Meningitis charity urge you to lobby your MP
Steve Dayman MBE who founded a meningitis charity following the death of his baby son says that babies and children are dying or suffering disabilities...
Brown and Darling present motion to Westminster
Alistair Darling MP and Gordon Brown MP, the leader of the Better Together campaign and the former Prime Minister respectively, have lodged a motion...
Edinburgh MP challenges UK Government on green energy U-turn
At Prime Minister’s Questions today Mark Lazarowicz MP challenged the Prime Minister on his complete u-turn on green energy policy with the announcement last...
The Scottish Independence Referendum this week
A resumé of remarks and comments and pointers to articles about the Scottish Independence Referendum during the last week.
People living in Scotland are invited to...
UK Government bid to reduce long term sick-leave
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are to introduce health assessments for Scots who are absent from work for over a month.
The announcement follows...
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