Dundee special constable who stalked his married ex-lover is jailed for 12 months

Abdul Salam (pictured outside court today) wanted revenge after feeling rejected when Razia Azhar ended the illicit sexual trysts – which they had started a decade after their first relationship ended A former special constable who stalked his married ex-lover and put a tracking device on her car when she broke off their affair has … Read more

Covid lockdown Scotland: Nicola Sturgeon says pubs can reopen INDOORS from MONDAY

Nicola Sturgeon today confirmed that pubs and restaurants can reopen indoors from Monday – three weeks ahead of England. The SNP leader declared that hospitality, shops and gyms can get back up and running next week, hailing the success of the vaccine rollout. Fronting a Covid briefing amid the hard-fought Holyrood election campaign, she said … Read more

Scottish elections: Tories say Nicola Sturgeon’s four-day week plan would cost taxpayers £3bn A YEAR

Nicola Sturgeon‘s aim of a four-day week in Scotland will cost the nation’s taxpayers £3billion a year, it was claimed today. The First Minister yesterday unveiled plans for a £10million pilot scheme if the SNP administration at Holyrood is re-elected in May, which will examine the feasibility of shortening the working week. It was among … Read more

Prince Philip’s Scottish boarding school Gordonstoun releases his old report cards

The Duke of Edinburgh‘s old boarding school has released his report cards which reveal ‘he was naughty, but never nasty’. The report from the £40,000-per-year Gordonstoun in Moray was written for the Duke’s marriage to The Queen in 1947. Headmaster Kurt Hahn’s notes also reveal a comical incident when the young prince nearly knocked over … Read more

Scottish elections: Alex Salmond threatens legal action if Alba Party barred from TV debates

Alex Salmond threatens broadcasters with legal action if he is barred from taking part in live TV debates ahead of the Scottish elections as he says there is an ‘unanswerable’ case for including his new Alba Party Alba leader is to write to broadcasters and regulator Ofcom to demand a place  He was was unveiled as … Read more

University of Edinburgh in free speech row over article praising scientist who advocated eugenics

The University of Edinburgh has become embroiled in a freedom of speech row after it defended a retired professor who wrote an article praising a controversial geneticist.  Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher – who died in 1962 – supported ‘selective breeding’ and the sterilisation of people from races he considered ‘mentally inferior’. A recent article titled ‘The outstanding … Read more

Nicola Sturgeon makes thinly-veiled attack on Alex Salmond as more defect from SNP to Alba party

Nicola Sturgeon fired both barrels at her former boss Alex Salmond today as she blasted those ‘who treat politics like a game’ amid a wave of defections to his new party. The First Minister launched a thinly-veiled attack on her predecessor after several of her MPs and councillors defected to his new Alba nationalist group. … Read more

Scottish independence: Alex Salmond launches Alba party to rival SNP after civil war

Alex Salmond launches Alba party to rival SNP after civil war with Nicola Sturgeon vowing to stand candidates in May elections Alex Salmond has announced that he is launching a new Scottish political party Former First Minister said Alba will stand candidates in forthcoming elections Mr Salmond said he wants to get ‘supermajority’ at Holyrood … Read more

Alex Salmond launches NEW legal action against Scottish Government after Nicola Sturgeon cleared

Most of the critical findings in the report were decided by majority, with the SNP trying to block them but their usual allies the Greens siding with the opposition.  NICOLA STURGEON ‘FAILED TO RECOLLECT’ KEY MEETING  The committee considered a meeting Nicola Sturgeon had with Alex Salmond’s aide Geoff Abberdein on March 29, 2018. She … Read more