In 2023-24, the town centre rate in Scotland hit 12.3 per cent after rising for the second consecutive year. The worst hit area was South Ayrshire, with a staggering 35.3 per cent of town centre shops ...

EXCLUSIVE: Employees at ScotRail's customer services team have claimed they are being treated like "second-class rail staff".

John Swinney was perfectly clear. So far as the First Minister was concerned, the UK should not be rolling out the red carpet ...

Musing on Scotland's future at a recent conference, John Swinney waxed lyrical about 'taking charge of our own destiny, with ...

Faslane, home to the UK's fleet of nuclear submarines for more than 50 years, is set for a major infrastructure upgrade.

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The SNP and Labour governments need to listen to small businesses’ concerns and take steps to help them ...

EXCLUSIVE: Labour warned the Nationalists' response to the housing crisis will be remembered as "one of this Government’s ...

A majority of Europeans favour an independent Scotland being allowed into the European Union – though a third of Britons would be opposed to ...

Scottish Labour has called for better funding for councils and rates to be slashed for local businesses to "breathe fresh ...

It’s rare I’m in agreement with a Labour figurehead, but UK health secretary Wes Streeting’s description of First Minster ...

According to analysis by the Scottish Lib Dems, since the target was last hit, 1,921,053 people waited four hours or more.