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West Port, site of Edinburgh's 'sexual entertainment venues', pictured in 2017 (Picture: Jon Savage)

Readers' Letters: Swinney must oppose licensing of strip clubs

How Andy Burnham put John Swinney and SNP on back foot Euan McColm

Dumfries and Galloway is the only UK location listed by National Geographic as one of the world’s best travel destinations for 2027

Readers' Letters: The beautiful irony of a National Geographic accolade

John Swinney

SNP conference diary: Booze, buses and mind-blowing revelations

Third of Scottish firms say economic conditions better now than a year ago

First Minister John Swinney during a visit to Crieff this week (Picture: Jane Barlow - Pool/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Swinney wrong to swerve question on Scottish Greens

John Swinney speaks during First Minister's Questions at Scottish Parliament Building last week (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Swinney is spreading disinformation about pensions

Child poverty continues to blight communities in Scotland

SNP to miss reducing child poverty target 'by miles'

Andy Burnham during his Labour conference speech

Burnham 'determined to prove Swinney wrong' that he will be last UK PM

Cubicles in Glasgow's safer drugs consumption facility, The Thistle, which opened in January 2025 (Picture: John Devlin)

Readers' Lettters: Swinney more interested in independence than drug deaths

Ben Nevis, the highest mountain in the British Isles, blanketed in snow (Picture: Ian Rutherford)

Readers' Letters: Mess in Ben Nevis bothy is the height of ignorance

Exclusive Disastrous new ScotRail app 'damaging its reputation' - John Swinney

Nicola Sturgeon speaking at the OEUK debate

Exclusive Sturgeon has 'brass neck' to claim North Sea workers are being misled

Professor Sir Anton Muscatelli and Iain Anderson

The case for 'Manchesterism' in Scotland Professor Sir Anton Muscatelli

Nicola Sturgeon speaking at the OEUK debate (credit: OEUK/Marcos Bevilacqua)

Exclusive North Sea workers being 'misled' and 'let down', says Nicola Sturgeon

Pro-independence campaigners.

SNP publishes new Scottish independence referendum bill

Andy Burnham on a visit to Port Talbot in Wales

Scotland should give more powers to regions and cities, says Burnham

More than 2,000 victims of rape could be waiting for support services by 2028 if current funding does not increase, a charity has warned.

Scotland's 'badge of shame' as rape victims wait 170 days for support

First Minister John Swinney

John Swinney 'determined' to tackle violence against women and girls

The ‘nothing to see here’ culture pervades Scotland's public sector Alan Young

Badenoch hits out at Swinney over business-class flights to World Cup

Sturgeon: I was not even considered for prosecution in police probe

Cabinet Secretary for Economy Stephen Flynn

Sturgeon’s SNP book comments were a ‘mistake’, says Flynn

Stephen Gethins, SNP minister for Europe, external affairs and energy

SNP accused of 'shockingly dismissive' attitude over Ming Yang

Deputy First Minister Jenny Gilruth and former first minister Nicola Sturgeon.

Nicola Sturgeon is an asset not an embarrassment, says deputy FM

Rosebank and Jackdaw are contentious topics in the SNP

Swinney accused of 'weakly watching on' in SNP oil and gas 'civil war'

The Isle of Lewis has been excluded from the fund

SNP accused of 'U-turn' on £10m crisis fund for islanders

Former SNP MP Joanna Cherry KC

Cherry hits back at Sturgeon and doesn't rule out political comeback

Former first minister Nicola Sturgeon

Nicola Sturgeon urges SNP not to shift on North Sea oil and gas

Nicola Sturgeon with Peter Murrell in 2019

Sturgeon: I will not visit Peter Murrell in jail or speak to him again

Nicola Sturgeon

Nicola Sturgeon: 'My God, JK Rowling is obsessed with me'

Former first minister Henry McLeish

Exclusive Ex-first minister's warning to Scottish Labour amid bitter infighting

Council leader Jane Meagher (left) with Deputy First Minister Jenny Gilruth in Princes Street

Council chief condemns FM's 'shameful' lack of response on Princes St

Nicola Sturgeon and John Swinney (PA)

John Swinney defends Holyrood campaign after Nicola Sturgeon attack

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Readers letters’: BRIC economies are to blame for wildfires

SNP Health Secretary Angela Constance

SNP 'woeful' on NHS waiting times as seven targets missed since 2022

John Swinney with orthopedic technician Stuart Main during a visit to the national treatment centre in Fife on Monday

John Swinney 'determined' ending long NHS waits will be his legacy

Smoke rises from the wildfire near Nethy Bridge on Friday hours before First Minister John Swinney made a formal request to the Ministry of Defence fo for aerial support to help tackle the blaze, which started on Wednesday, July 15.

First Minister requests military support to fight Cairngorms wildfire

Call for 'clear answers' on SNP's £2 bus fare cap promise

Prime Minister Andy Burnham and First Minister John Swinney during a bilateral meeting at the Cabinet Office in Atlantic Square, Glasgow

Andy Burnham tells John Swinney second referendum is 'off limits'

First Minister John Swinney

Swinney urged to match Burnham's tax cut for pubs, clubs and venues

John Swinney during First Minister's Questions in Holyrood

John Swinney refuses to apologise to 'bullied' SNP whistleblowers

Nicola Sturgeon with Peter Murrell as they cast their votes in the 2019 general election

Nicola Sturgeon urged to publish statement she provided to police

A 36-year-old man was arrested after five people were injured in a series of attacks in Edinburgh on Friday PIC Edward Hughes/PA

Man, 36, faces five counts of attempted murder after Edinburgh attacks

First Minister John Swinney

Swinney calls for 'change of direction' after Starmer resignation

The Tartan Army has taken over Boston

Tartan Army's charm offensive of USA sets up tourism boom back home

The Royal Highland Show is taking place near Edinburgh

Scotland's rural communities in 'quiet crisis', ministers warned

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