Home bargains issue ‘urgent recall’ over Easter plushies
Missing Lossiemouth woman traced by police
Elgin man left victim unconscious after “appalling unprovoked” attack
Vultures, Becci Wallace, Kathryn Joseph and Dick Gaughan
Here’s a grand mix of music this week with new album releases from Kathryn Joseph and Becci Wallace, archive gold from the Maida Vale vaults (The Vultures!) and an amazing project to celebrate Dick Gaughan… Dick Gaughan is a legend in Scottish folk music and his album A Handful of Earth is considered a world […] Source
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The ongoing horror in Palestine continues: documentary filmmaker Hamdan Ballal is lynched and courageous journalist Hossam Shabat is killed, just two of the human stories of the unfolding ethnic cleansing taking place across Palestine. Documentary director, Hamdan Ballal who made No Other Land which won an Oscar for best documentary with Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham […] Source
Labour urged to U-turn as hiked Scotch whisky tax ‘loses Treasury £300m’
After Sturgeon and ‘Sturgeonism’: Facing Up to the Undemocracy of Scotland
The past week has seen the end of a monumental era of Scottish politics: of Nicola Sturgeon’s SNP and of ‘Sturgeonism’. This has generated a welter of instant commentary as expected but with much of it focusing only on the immediate, the party’s prospects for 2026 and what Sturgeon might do post-politics, rather than look […] Source
SNP minister intervenes as Scottish drinks brand closure puts jobs at risk
Dozens of jobs at risk as well-known Scottish drinks brand to close down
Campaigners pan claim North Sea could produce half of UK oil and gas by 2050
Forestry and Land Scotland’s approach to wind farm tenders falls short
IN Lesley Riddoch’s article of March 20, a representative of Forestry and Land Scotland is quoted as saying: “We have consulted on the energy offerings for new renewables projects (delivering seven community hydro schemes). However, Cruach Mhor is an established wind farm subject to a lease renewal tender and we do not routinely carry out consultations on these.” Source
Branchform’s meagre fruit
It cost £2.3 million, it lasted four years. It originated in a politically motivated complaint from a notorious attention seeker with a habit of making nuisance complaints to the police, but Police Scotland’s Operation Branchform has finally come to an end – without any charges being brought against former first minister…
Labour out-Tories the Tories
The head of the DWP, the Department of Wickedness and Persecution, Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall, the mad axe-woman of Westminster, today announced the biggest cuts ever to sickness and disability benefits, kicking away the crutches of some of the most vulnerable in society. The scale of the cuts is…