The Latest Breaking News from Scotland

Holyrood election gives Labour ‘once-in-a-generation opportunity’, says McFadden

Pat McFadden, who co-ordinated the party’s 2024 general election campaign, said a Labour government in Scotland could work alongside Westminster.

Evening Standard · Feb 21, 2025

Scotland happy to let England play favourites before Calcutta Cup clash

Gregor Townsend seems to know just what is needed to unravel their Six Nations rivals with a peerless record

The Guardian - UK · Feb 21, 2025

Labour’s Anas Sarwar vows to ‘defy the odds’ and become Scottish first minister

The Scottish Labour leader has declared his ambition ahead of the Holyrood election next year.

Evening Standard · Feb 21, 2025

Maro Itoje outlines England's gameplan to end Six Nations losing streak against Scotland

Captain admits England can’t rely on ‘blind, beating-your-chest’ fury

Evening Standard · Feb 21, 2025

Scottish independence campaigners to take case to UN decolonisation group

SCOTTISH independence campaigners have said they are taking their case to the United Nations in a bid to “free Scotland from its colonial…

The National (Scotland) · Feb 21, 2025

Anas Sarwar copies Tories with plan for Elon Musk-style 'Doge' in Scotland

ANAS Sarwar has said that Scottish Labour will create an Elon Musk-style “Doge” to find public spending cuts if he becomes first minister ...

The National (Scotland) · Feb 21, 2025

England promise ‘nastiness’ in Six Nations grudge match with Scotland

England are trying to avoid a fifth straight Calcutta Cup defeat for the first time in history and have vowed to match Scotland’s physicality

The Independent UK · Feb 21, 2025

An explosion of colour and the downfall of an Instagram darling – what to see and watch this week

Anyone familiar with Scotland will know the weather is at best mercurial, and at worst wet, grey and what we call “dreich” – a good Scottish word meaning drab. For an artist in the early 20th century suffering not just miserable weather but a cultural landscape of joyless, soul-sucking Presbyterianism,…

The Conversation · Feb 21, 2025

Labour 'working in China's interest, not Scotland's' on Grangemouth, says Unite head

LABOUR are working in the Chinese national interest – not the UK or Scotland’s – by failing to step in and save jobs at Grangemouth, a top…

The National (Scotland) · Feb 21, 2025

Scotland ‘cannot afford’ to keep SNP in charge, warns Murray

The Scottish Secretary addressed the Scottish Labour conference on Friday.

Evening Standard · Feb 21, 2025