John Swinney says gender reform legislation will not be introduced by his SNP Government

A new poll has revealed Labour is in line for a crushing general election victory over the SNP in Scotland.

John Swinney has said he should be invited to take part in all TV debates involving party leaders during the general election campaign.

John Swinney will say the SNP can kick the Conservatives out of “every seat in Scotland” as he campaigns ahead of the General Election. The First Minister will on Monday campaign for votes in Dumfries, which is part of Scottish Secretary Alister Jack’s Dumfries and Galloway seat.

John Swinney must do more to end Scotland’s cold homes crisis which remains an overwhelming priority for the public, fuel poverty experts have warned.

Anas Sarwar has said his party’s green energy revolution will create nearly 70,000 jobs in Scotland.

John Swinney has said the SNP will stand against the “twin threats” of austerity and privatisation, as his party campaigns on public services. The SNP will seek to focus on investing in the NHS and other public services over the coming week of General Election campaigning.

Prince William and Kate Middleton have expressed their profound sadness on hearing about the tragic death of a Royal Air Force pilot in a Spitfire crash near RAF Coningsby, Lincolnshire.

Before they ever went one on one as Hall & Oates, John Oates played his first show with his longtime partner Daryl Hall in New York City.After meeting as students at Temple University in Philadelphia in 1967, the blue-eyed soul brothers behind such classics as “Rich Girl,” “Kiss on My List,” “Maneater” and “Out of Touch” made their debut in the middle of Greenwich Village’s fertile folk scene in the late ’60s.“[Daryl] had a doo wop group called the Temptones,” Oates, 76, told The Post outside the site of the former Gaslight Cafe where the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame duo first played together in public — five-plus decades before their shocking breakup last fall.“They were a vocal group, and they needed a backing band. They had a backing band, and they lost their guitar player,” he recalled.

Former First Minister Humza Yousaf’s top spin doctor will not be returning to government under John Swinney.

The SNP is facing major losses at the general election as Scottish Labour has opened up a 10 point lead, a poll has suggested.

John Oates has opened up about his friendship with former bandmate Daryl Hall, saying it “wasn’t as tight as people might imagine”.The pair are currently embroiled in a legal battle after Hall announced he was suing Oates after claiming that he was left “blindsided” by his plan to sell a business stake last November – which Oates described as “inaccurate”.Now, in a new interview with Good Morning America, Oates has claimed the pair’s working relationship has been distant even before the lawsuit, limited only to playing onstage where they “trotted out the hits”.Though there was no animosity, Oates claimed they “never really talked to each other”, adding: “Over the past 20 years, we’d show up at a show individually, walk on stage, play, and then we’d go our separate ways. It really wasn’t as tight as people might, you know, would like to imagine in their kind of a fantasy imagination of our relationship.When asked if Oates had a message for Hall should he be watching the interview, Oates responded: “I love you like a brother… but you know what? Brothers have disagreements, families grow apart… [I] would say, I wish him the best.“I hope that he has everything he wants in life.

Tenants rights' campaigners have staged protests across Scotland, demanding the First Minister make rent controls a top priority.

The Duke of Edinburgh has expressed that the wave of support following his mother, Queen Elizabeth II's passing, was "overwhelming".

Kate Forbes has returned to the Scottish Government for the first time since last year's bitter SNP leadership contest.

Jenelle Riley Deputy Awards and Features Editor Ron Howard first attended the Cannes Film Festival with his 1988 fantasy-adventure “Willow,” and he’ll never forget his first walk up the stairs at the Palais des Festivals, where the film premiered out of competition. “I remember that first time so vividly,” he says, more than 25 years later. “And what I really remember is how fun it was.” Howard would return over the years as an Oscar-winning director and super-producer (with Brian Grazer) behind Imagine Entertainment.

First Minister-elect John Swinney praised a former Tory Chancellor who pushed through deep benefit cuts as a “believer” in devolution.

John Swinney became the next leader the SNP yesterday after a veteran activist from Arden - who claimed he had enough nominations to stand - pulled out of a leadership challenge.

The UK and Scottish Governments have been urged to stop picking fights on the 25th anniversary of the first Holyrood election.

An SNP activist who planned to challenge John Swinney for the party's leadership has pulled out of the running.

Captain Kirk says he is open to a return to Star Trek – if the storytelling is stellar.