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Labour has warned the Scottish Government "cannot be taken seriously" on mental health after funding for services was frozen in the recent Budget despite increasing demand.

A billionaire tax exile accused of failing to maintain one of Scotland’s main ferry terminals banked a £22 million dividend from his ports empire last year.

A BT engineer who was caught moving £130,000 of dirty money for a crime gang is facing jail. Dee Williams, 32, was snared during a police investigation into alleged drug offences.

A former Scots Tory MP has posted a photo of himself meeting with former US president Donald Trump at his Florida resort.

Vulnerable witnesses in trials are being left to wait for hours due to delays in accused criminals being brought into court. The blame is being put on ­GEOAmey, which has a £240million contract to escort prisoners.

The Scottish Government has not started hiring 1,000 mental health specialists yet despite it being one of their key pledges from the last term of Government.

Scottish Labour support for the Government’s gender recognition bill is “very fragile” after robust discussions on the plans.

A top Labour MSP has been accused of wanting to “abandon” Holyrood after a year in the Scottish Parliament

Critics have slammed the decision to scrap the Scottish Drug Deaths Taskforce and replace it with another body that is answerable only to the Scottish Government.

Glaswegians have long been frustrated by the legal ban on drinking alcohol in the city’s many parks whenever warm weather arrives.

An historic railway works in Glasgow that closed after SNP ministers refused to nationalise it could still be saved from "industrial vandalism", a city MSP has said.

A grieving student and her sister who lost their mum to cancer just three weeks ago say they are now facing eviction from their family home.

Glasgow homes have been evacuated after Storm Malik winds targeted an 'unsafe' historic building.

Homes in Glasgow have been evacuated due to an unsafe structure worsened by Storm Malik.

The Scottish and Westminster governments face urgent calls to combat the cost of living crisis that threatens to force many into poverty.

Afghanistan told a protest of his disgust over the chaotic Allied withdrawal from the country. Paul Sweeney, whose best friend Bobby Hetherington was killed in Helmand, said there had been so much sacrificed by so many and it now felt in vain.Sweeney was addressing a protest in Glasgow, organised by the Afghan Human Rights Foundation and the Glasgow Stop the War Coalition. Hundreds of people held up placards demanding “no more war” and “Afghan refugees welcome here”.He said: “I felt numb

Angela Constance has held talks to discuss potential legislation to allow Drug Consumption Rooms in Scotland. Angela Constance had a “constructive meeting” with Labour MSP Paul Sweeney, who believes the such facilities should be viewed the same way as needle exchanges, which UK law already comfortably accommodates.

Westminster bar plans to sue his accuser. Ross Thomson, who represented Aberdeen South from June 2017 to November 2019, also wants Scottish Labour to suspend Paul Sweeney and for the party to hold an investigation into his conduct.

Paul Sweeney, who said the Conservative had “groped” him in a Westminster bar in October 2018. The Independent Expert Panel (IEP), established last year as part of a complaints process developed following a major report on bullying and harassment in the House of Commons by Dame Laura Cox, considered an appeal by Sweeney against commissioner Kathryn Stone’s decision.

Scottish Labour figure has cautioned his party against embracing “hyper” Unionism.Ex MP Paul Sweeney called for Labour and the SNP to work together on more powers for Holyrood and oppose the “common enemy” of the Tories.He said Labour needed to be the voice for the “reconciliation” of the country.Get all the top Scottish politics news sent straight to your Inbox by signing up to our Politics newsletter.We cover Holyrood, Westminster and local councils, with a current focus on how our governments