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THE Scots charity head who helped write the Tory aid policy has accused the Government of “an attack on aid”.

ALL of them are women of our times. Brought together their individual stories represent a litany of lives spent on the margins, under thr...

STUDENTS graduating from university in Scotland take on an average of three times less student debt than their counterparts in England.

THE UK Budget is normally an extremely secretive affair where the opposition benches only get sight of what it contains as the Chancellor...

THE extended cut to stamp duty for house-buyers south of the Border will not be replicated in Scotland, Finance Secretary Kate Forbes has...

THERE’S something “fishy” about Rishi Sunak’s flagship £1 billion town funding plan, Labour leader Keir Starmer has said.

THE budget turned out to be a bit of a damp squib because so much of it had been trailed already. The Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng m...

THE European Parliament has delayed setting a date to ratify the trade and security deal between the EU and the UK over concerns Boris Jo...

THE new US presidential administration has agreed to completely remove the tariffs which had been imposed on Scotch​ whisky.

LEADING environmental charities have said that backing their plan for nature’s recovery could create up to 7000 new jobs in Scotland.

ROBUST parliamentary exchanges are a common form of torture for any chancellor and yesterday’s were no different for Rishi Sunak.

THE furlough scheme will be extended until the end of September, as will the 5% reduced rate of VAT for tourism and hospitality firms, an...

THE contactless payment limit is to more than double to £100.

SPEAKER of the Catalan Parliament Roger Torrent has been charged with the crime of disobedience for allowing MPs to vote for self-determi...

THE annual publication of the UK Government Expenditure and Revenue Report for Scotland (GERS) is routinely used by the unionist media as...

LESLEY Riddoch has published her second weekly video column, this time focusing on the UK Government’s plan to slash international aid fu...

A PARIS court yesterday found French former president Nicolas Sarkozy guilty of corruption and influence peddling and sentenced him to on...

CASES of a new strain of coronavirus first found in Brazil have been identified in Scotland.

FURLOUGH looks set to continue until the summer, Rishi Sunak has hinted.

SCOTLAND'S Finance Secretary has urged the UK government to extend the £20 Universal Credit uplift and the furlough scheme ahead of this...

CHANCELLOR Rishi Sunak has been urged not to ignore the plight of thousands of people who have “fallen through the gaps” in financial sup...

TED Cruz, the US Senator for Texas, finished a speech to a right-wing conference last night by screaming about William Wallace.

AN employee-owned audio-visual company is reaping the benefits of people working from home after winning major contracts to help drive it...

A LEADING German MEP has said he feels Scotland is already a member of the European Union, as he underlines that he will “help in whatever w...

A LEGAL row over the withdrawal of parliamentary immunity for three MEPs took another twist yesterday when the bete noire of the Catalan...