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27 days ago
Controversial proposals to legalise assisted dying in Scotland were tonight rejected by MSPs in a crunch Holyrood vote.
Scotland's assisted dying bill rejected after emotional debate ⊖
Scotland would have become the first part of the UK to legalise the process had MSPs backed the proposals.
3 months ago
MSPs hand themselves inflation-busting 4.3% pay rise - taking effect just before crucial elections in May ⊕
Salaries for politicians at Holyrood will go up from £74,507 to £77,710 on April 1 - just a month before crucial elections.
My daughter was raped for years by a grooming gang. Do MSPs now want to pretend this just didn't happen? ⊖⊖
The people of Scotland must ask themselves, why wouldn't our government want to prevent children being gang-raped, drugged and in some cases tortured, driven to suicide and trafficked?
4 months ago
Scotland’s looser rules on assisted dying could lead to ‘death tourism’, say senior politicians ⊖
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Cross-party group of MSPs says bill going through Holyrood could attract people from elsewhere in UK
Senior Scottish politicians fear there could be a risk of “death tourism” from terminally ill peopl…
6 months ago
Scottish teenager’s petition on single-use plastics wins support in parliament ○
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
Groundswell of support for ban propels campaign of Tabby Fletcher, 17, from her island home on Jura to Holyrood
A petition by a schoolgirl on a remote island calling on the Scottish government to ban …
Scotland's centuries-old not proven verdict is to be abolished ○
Scotland's centuries-old not proven verdict is to be abolished following an historic vote by MSPs.
Scottish parliament scraps legal verdict of ‘not proven’ ○
Third option for juries – blamed for country’s lower conviction rates for rape and sexual assault – abolished
The Scottish verdict of “not proven” – a global legal anomaly thought to be a key factor i…
Scotland's not proven verdict to be scrapped as MSPs back reforms ○
The verdict has been used in criminal trials for hundreds of years but campaigners had called for it to be abolished.
MSPs to vote on scrapping not proven verdict in major justice shake-up ○
Plans to scrap the not proven verdict and raise the bar for a guilty verdict are facing a final vote at Holyrood.