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Niall Christie
Britain / 10 January 2022
Close to 300 cases of abuse against shopworkers in Scotland reported to police
10 January 2022
Scottish Health Secretary Humza Yousaf
Britain / 9 January 2022
Scottish government criticised for failure to develop robust ventilation system in schools
9 January 2022
It is ‘unfathomable’ that staff are having to keep doors and windows open and ask pupils to layer up for a second winter, Scottish Teachers for Positive Change and Wellbeing says
Scottish government criticised for failure to develop robust
Britain / 9 January 2022
MPs slammed for taking another pay rise as workers hit with soaring bills
9 January 2022
Britain / 9 January 2022
Cosla calls for pay rise for local councillors ahead of May elections
9 January 2022
Britain / 7 January 2022
Scottish Labour warns of ‘incredibly worrying’ spread of Covid-19 in adult care homes
7 January 2022
A general view of Stornoway airport run by Highlands and Isl
Britain / 7 January 2022
Plans to relocate airport tower jobs from remote communities shelved following trade union pressure
7 January 2022
Steam is released from Reactor 4 at Hunterston B nuclear pow
Britain / 7 January 2022
One of Scotland's two nuclear power plants to shut down permanently
7 January 2022
Britain / 7 January 2022
Available hospital beds for Glasgow children fell by 40% in last decade, Scottish Labour says
7 January 2022
Leader of the House of Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg
Britain / 6 January 2022
Rees-Mogg leads cabinet revolt against government's planned National Insurance hike
6 January 2022
Scottish Deputy First Minister John Swinney
Britain / 6 January 2022
Labour reports Scotland's Deputy First Minister to Statistics Authority over ‘spin’
6 January 2022
Britain / 5 January 2022
‘Covid more widespread than ever’ — Sturgeon
5 January 2022
Britain / 5 January 2022
Former SNP policy chief calls for devo-max option on any future independence referendum ballot
5 January 2022
Britain / 5 January 2022
A million Scottish pensioners to lose out after Tories scrap the triple lock, SNP warns
5 January 2022
Ambulances in a line
Britain / 4 January 2022
Paramedics leaving the job at five-year high in Scotland as Covid-19 strains health service
4 January 2022
Britain / 4 January 2022
‘Allowance rise for unpaid carers will not be permanent’
4 January 2022
Teacher in classroom wearing mask
Britain / 4 January 2022
9 in 10 Scottish teachers say workload has increased during the pandemic
4 January 2022
Britain / 4 January 2022
MSPs say homeless plan needs more funds
4 January 2022
Karen Adam MSP
Britain / 4 January 2022
Police investigating threats to Karen Adam MSP after backlash over post on paedophiles
4 January 2022
Nicola Sturgeon
Britain / 29 December 2021
Further restrictions still under review, Nicola Sturgeon says amid record Covid cases
29 December 2021
BMA Scotland chair Dr Lewis Morrison
Britain / 29 December 2021
Scotland must address doctors' 'fatigue, frustration and unhappiness' to plug shortage, warns BMA Scotland chair
29 December 2021
Covid restrictions sign Jockey Cl;iub
Britain / 28 December 2021
Concerns at Covid's continued spread as government rules out new restrictions before New Year
28 December 2021
House being built
Britain / 28 December 2021
Labour MSP Alex Rowley slams SNP for rejecting Passivhaus standard for new builds
28 December 2021
Saudi protest UK 2018
Britain / 27 December 2021
Boris Johnson's government 'has licensed £2.8 billion in arms sales to human rights abusers'
27 December 2021
Scotrail stock photo
Britain / 27 December 2021
TSSA calls on Sturgeon to ensure Scotrail doesn't lay off essential staff
27 December 2021
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon updates MSPs on any changes t
Britain / 22 December 2021
£2,000 pay rise for Scottish politicians would be ‘disgraceful,’ Labour MSP says
22 December 2021
A vigil outside the gates of Derwentside, a new women’s de
Britain / 22 December 2021
Campaigners hit out at Home Office's ‘cruel and unnecessary’ decision to send female asylum-seekers to a remote detention centre
22 December 2021
A Border Force vessel intercepts a group of people thought t
Britain / 22 December 2021
Jailed asylum-seekers overturn convictions for helping to steer small boats across the channel
22 December 2021
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon after delivering a Covid-19 u
Britain / 21 December 2021
Scotland to introduce tighter Covid restrictions after Christmas
21 December 2021
A person stands in the window of an empty office
Britain / 21 December 2021
Scotland and Wales should be able to launch their own furlough schemes if required, researchers argue
21 December 2021
A&E
Britain / 21 December 2021
A&E waiting times in Scotland are the second-worst on record
21 December 2021
Britain / 21 December 2021
Thousands of women executed for witchcraft in Scotland could be pardoned after nearly 300 years
21 December 2021
First Minister of Scotland and SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon
Britain / 21 December 2021
SNP accused of diminishing Scotland’s economic potential
21 December 2021
Scottish Fiscal Commission data reveals Scotland’s pandemic recovery has been the weakest of any nation and most regions in the UK
renting 18/6/18
Britain / 20 December 2021
Campaigners welcome public consultation on a new deal for tenants in Scotland
20 December 2021
Labour Logo
Britain / 20 December 2021
Labour threatened with legal action after accusing 82-year-old Jew of anti-semitism for the third time
20 December 2021
Extinction Rebellion Red Rebels during the official final da
Britain / 20 December 2021
Environmental justice campaigners block entrance to Home Office building in Glasgow
20 December 2021
Sajid Javid chrsitmas tree
Britain / 19 December 2021
We can't rule out more restrictions before Christmas, Sajid Javid admits as omicron cases soar
19 December 2021
Scottish pupils returning to school earlier this year
Britain / 19 December 2021
Delay January school reopening because of omicron, says Scottish teaching union SSTA
19 December 2021
Shropshire North result Dec 21
Britain / 19 December 2021
Labour 'let Lib Dems take Shropshire North,' former constituency candidate claims
19 December 2021
Omicron warning on app
Britain / 19 December 2021
Impact of omicron on staffing levels 'a huge worry,' says head of BMA Scotland
19 December 2021
sleeping rough
Britain / 19 December 2021
Scottish government could 'create legal duty to prevent homelessness'
19 December 2021
Police pin a protester to the floor after he tried to climb
Britain / 16 December 2021
‘Intimidation, harassment and violence:’ Police's Cop26 conduct called into question
16 December 2021
‘Police Scotland not only failed to protect human rights during their policing of Cop26, but in many cases actively hindered or violated human rights,’ Netpol says
children wearing facemasks during a lesson at Outwood Academ
Britain / 16 December 2021
Government urged to support teachers after stats reveal school staff more likely to catch Covid than other workers
16 December 2021
Britain / 16 December 2021
Anti-poverty groups, environmentalists and trade unions join forces to campaign for better bus services in Scotland
16 December 2021
People take part in a protest outside the Home Office in Wes
Britain / 15 December 2021
Scottish and Welsh governments call for urgent talks with Home Office over its asylum policies
15 December 2021
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and Deputy First Minister Joh
Britain / 14 December 2021
Scots urged to do everything they can to protect their loved ones and the NHS as new Covid restrictions announced
14 December 2021
A wreath depicting 1935, the number of drug overdose deaths
Britain / 14 December 2021
Scotland cannot waste any more time tackling drug-related deaths, MSPs say
14 December 2021
There were over 1,000 recorded deaths linked to drug use in the first nine months of 2021, new figures
Scottish health secretary Humza Yousaf sits beside First Min
Britain / 13 December 2021
Home working and return of furlough could be needed in Scotland in coming weeks, unions warn
13 December 2021
Scottish government expected to confirm further rules and limitations on social gatherings on Tuesday
Prime Minister Boris Johnson
Britain / 12 December 2021
Johnson's clings to premiership after evidence suggests he may have broken lockdown rules last Christmas
12 December 2021
Britain / 12 December 2021
Teachers ‘favour retaining virus mitigation in schools’
12 December 2021
A ScotRail train leaves Edinburgh's Waverley Station
Britain / 12 December 2021
Give workers more say in new publicly-owned ScotRail company, union demands
12 December 2021
Activists from Friends of the Earth during a demonstration c
Britain / 10 December 2021
Cambo oil and gas project developers announce project is on hold
10 December 2021
A Covid-19 information sign in Edinburgh
Britain / 10 December 2021
Omicron could force Scotland into even stricter measures, Sturgeon warns
10 December 2021
Members of Scotland's tenants' union Living Rent organised a
Britain / 10 December 2021
Students demand action over eye-watering rents in Scotland
10 December 2021
Scotland's finance secretary Kate Forbes
Britain / 9 December 2021
SNP's financial plans fail to address child poverty and are an insult to care workers, Labour charges
9 December 2021
Britain / 4 December 2021
Labour calls for full review of Scottish government’s spending
4 December 2021
Activists from Friends of the Earth during a demonstration c
Britain / 3 December 2021
Activists hail Shell's withdrawal from the Cambo oil field project as a victory
3 December 2021
Britain / 3 December 2021
Civil society, refugee groups and trade unions call for humanitarian visas and safe routes to sanctuary
3 December 2021
A person holding a hammer behind someone wearing an LGBT pri
Britain / 3 December 2021
Figures show a stark rise in homophobic attacks
3 December 2021
Prime Minister Boris Johnston holds a press conference at th
Britain / 2 December 2021
Britain ‘nowhere near’ meeting climate targets, official report on Cop26 summit finds
2 December 2021
Graffiti on the Israeli separation wall
Britain / 2 December 2021
Labour leadership accused of targeting anti-zionist Jews
2 December 2021
The party's ‘campaign of stigmatisation of innocent left-wing Jews for factional reasons is totally unacceptable,’ Jewish Voice for Labour tells EHRC
Extinction Rebellion Scotland activists outside Holyrood
Britain / 2 December 2021
Activists denounce private meeting between MSPs and fossil fuel giant BP
2 December 2021
(from left) Louise Slorance, Kimberly Darroch and Scottish L
Britain / 1 December 2021
Scottish Ministers under pressure to sack senior management at scandal-hit super-hospital in Glasgow
1 December 2021
Students arriving at St Andrew's RC Secondary School in Glas
Britain / 1 December 2021
MSPs urged to back plans for greater ventilation in Scottish schools
1 December 2021
A Caledonian Sleeper train
Britain / 1 December 2021
Caledonian Sleeper workers take pay justice fight to London
1 December 2021
Members of a non government organisation make a red ribbon,
Britain / 1 December 2021
SNP demands Tory government reverse cuts to overseas funding
1 December 2021
The entrance to the Cabinet Office
Britain / 30 November 2021
Cabinet Office forced to deny accusations that experts are being politically vetted
30 November 2021
Britain / 30 November 2021
Activists' occupation of former homeless accommodation in Glasgow ends
30 November 2021
Labour leader, Keir Starmer walks to today's shadow cabinet
Britain / 30 November 2021
Starmer's shadow cabinet reshuffle represents a shift to the right, socialists say
30 November 2021
Campaigners raise concerns for the future of Labour’s plans for a green industrial revolution
Retired nurse manager Siobhan Boyle administers a covid vacc
Britain / 29 November 2021
Tory ministers must take stronger action against new Covid variant, unions and devolved leaders demand
29 November 2021
Labour MP Cat Smith
Britain / 29 November 2021
Labour's Cat Smith quits shadow cabinet over party leadership's refusal to reinstate Corbyn
29 November 2021
Prime Minister Boris Johnson during a media briefing in Down
Britain / 29 November 2021
Britain's democracy ‘cannot hinge on a gentleman’s agreement,’ Labour insists
29 November 2021
Nicola Sturgeon in the debating chamber of the Scottish Parl
Britain / 29 November 2021
Scottish government to double child payment sustained campaigning
29 November 2021
Britain / 29 November 2021
Local government funding cuts in Scotland must end or economy will worsen, Cosla says
29 November 2021
Britain / 28 November 2021
Cold, hungry and stressed: 150,000 London kids in need
28 November 2021
Charity reports devastating effects of Tory cuts on vulnerable families
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon
Britain / 28 November 2021
Labour: Sturgeon must back or sack death hospital board
28 November 2021
Britain / 28 November 2021
Financial pressures ‘will see families struggling at Xmas’
28 November 2021
Police Scotland officers
Britain / 26 November 2021
Cops involved in raid on Baile Hoose occupation should face disciplinary action, campaigners says
26 November 2021
Health and Social Care Secretary Sajid Javid
Britain / 26 November 2021
Government urged to ensure that alternative plans are in place as new Covid variant found in Europe
26 November 2021
Job centre
Britain / 26 November 2021
Further education needs an extra £1bn of support to help tackle youth unemployment
26 November 2021
Tory MP Phillip Hammond leaves 10 Downing Street in April 20
Britain / 26 November 2021
Government accuses of ‘muzzling its own watchdog’ after refusing to sanction Hammond
26 November 2021
Britain / 26 November 2021
Sack NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde's senior management, Sarwar tells Sturgeon
26 November 2021
Police and demonstrators at an Extinction Rebellion protest
Britain / 25 November 2021
Campaigners condemn government proposals to strengthen powers to crack down on climate activists
25 November 2021
Police Scotland (stock photo)
Britain / 25 November 2021
Police Scotland decision not to renew its training contract with Sri Lanka’s police welcomed by campaigners
25 November 2021
Home Secretary Priti Patel
Britain / 24 November 2021
Home Office should be stripped of responsibility for the Windrush compensation scheme after ‘litany of flaws’
24 November 2021
Climate activists protesting in fake blood during the offici
Britain / 24 November 2021
Pollution and climate change jumps to become Britain’s biggest concern, poll finds
24 November 2021
Jeremy Corbyn
Britain / 23 November 2021
Tory councillor pays ‘substantial’ legal costs to Corbyn over defamatory tweet
23 November 2021
Britain / 23 November 2021
Social workers struggling to deliver children's services due to understaffing, underfunding and a lack of resources
23 November 2021
Demonstrators at a Extinction Rebellion protest during the C
Britain / 23 November 2021
Extinction Rebellion unveils plans to mobilise millions for acts of civil disobedience after Cop26's failures
23 November 2021
Jeremy Corbyn with the Balie Hoose activists
Britain / 22 November 2021
Activists occupying an empty building in Glasgow launch crowdfund to help stop eviction
22 November 2021
Rubbish waiting to be collected
Britain / 22 November 2021
Further bin strikes on the horizon, workers warn after talks with Glasgow city council fail
22 November 2021
Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaking during the CBI annual
Britain / 22 November 2021
Unions slam Johnson after rambling CBI speech
22 November 2021
Prime Minister praises Peppa Pig, loses his notes, and compares himself to Moses and Vladimir Lenin
Climate Justice Activists at the Cop26 Gates asking delegate
Britain / 12 November 2021
Cop26's aim to limit global warming in ‘mortal peril’
12 November 2021
The ‘fossil fuel industries' fingerprints’ are all over the summit's draft agreement, environmentalists warn
Britain / 12 November 2021
Caledonian Sleeper workers have been ‘left out in the cold,’ union warns
12 November 2021
Minga Indigena
Britain / 12 November 2021
The solutions to the climate emergency won't come from the colonisers, Indigenous groups say
12 November 2021
Protesters move through the restricted Blue Zone area of the
Britain / 12 November 2021
Youth climate activists gather outside Cop26 to condemn world leaders' inaction on climate crisis
12 November 2021
BP or Not BP activists protest against the Scottish Ballet's
Britain / 12 November 2021
Artists and dancers perform protest musical against BP’s sponsorship of the Scottish Ballet
12 November 2021
The motorcade of U.S. President Joe Biden heads along the M8
Britain / 11 November 2021
Cop26's carbon footprint expected to be more than double that of Cop25
11 November 2021
Britain / 11 November 2021
Female detainees forced to mix with male sex offenders at Dungavel Immigration Removal Centre
11 November 2021
A person walks past messages left on a fence at the Scottish
Britain / 11 November 2021
Hundreds gather to demand justice for migrants as Cop26 nears its end
11 November 2021
Climate protestors demonstrate at the Scottish Power Buildin
Britain / 11 November 2021
Activists call out the ‘greenwashing’ of polluters and corporations at Cop26
11 November 2021
Campaigners from Friends of the Earth Scotland, Get Glasgow
Britain / 10 November 2021
Better public transport is the only way to cut carbon emissions, unions and campaigners urge
10 November 2021
Cop26 summit ignores rail, buses, ferries and bicycles and puts its focus on cars and planes instead
A replica of Cop26 summit's main UN negotiation stage, carry
Britain / 10 November 2021
Cop26's draft agreement condemned for lacking concrete commitments to tackle climate crisis
10 November 2021
Britain / 10 November 2021
Scottish government challenged to end its two-tier workforce
10 November 2021
Britain / 10 November 2021
More lawyers needed to fight against climate crisis, campaigners say
10 November 2021
Protesters take part in a rally organised by the Cop26 Coali
Britain / 9 November 2021
Activists call for a feminist green new deal at Cop26
9 November 2021
Protesters against climate change
Britain / 9 November 2021
Campaigners call for a law to protect the planet from ecocide
9 November 2021
an Extinction Rebellion protest on St Vincent Street in Glas
Britain / 9 November 2021
MSPs quiz police's targeting of socialist and left-wing protesters in Glasgow
9 November 2021
Britain / 9 November 2021
Bin strikes could last until Christmas, union tells Glasgow City Council
9 November 2021