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12 days ago

John Sw inney, the Scottish First Minister, this week saw MSPs back an SNP motion demanding the UK Government hand over powers to enable a fresh independence vote.

26 days ago

Parliamentarians have pledged allegiance to the King in the first official business since the Holyrood election.

84 days ago

Controversial proposals to legalise assisted dying in Scotland were tonight rejected by MSPs in a crunch Holyrood vote.
Scotland would have become the first part of the UK to legalise the process had MSPs backed the proposals.

5 months ago

Salaries for politicians at Holyrood will go up from £74,507 to £77,710 on April 1 - just a month before crucial elections.
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?

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…

8 months ago

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 following an historic vote by MSPs.

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…

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