SCOTTISH Labour should sever its ties with the UK party before Jeremy Corbyn wrecks its chances of winning the next General Election, former first minister Henry McLeish has said.
WAGES in Britain have fallen as sharply as in Greece since the global banking crisis, according to a new analysis.
NICOLA Sturgeon will today set out five key Brexit tests that could determine whether Scotland faces a second independence referendum within the next two years.
SIR Ian Wood, the North Sea oil tycoon, has urged Nicola Sturgeon not to call a second independence referendum, as the SNP continued to prepare the ground for a re-run of the 2014 vote.
HOLYROOD'S combination of constituency and regional MSPs could be ended under plans due to be debated by the SNP.
When Theresa May declared "Brexit means Brexit," Nicola Sturgeon's response was pithy and to the point. "Remain means Remain," she said, making an apparently all-or-nothing commitment to securing Scotland's place in the EU after the country voted decisively to stay.
THE SNP is facing calls to disown its 2014 blueprint for independence after a Nationalist MP warned leaving the UK would require deep cuts to public spending.
UNEMPLOYMENT in Scotland fell 18,000 in the three months to May but the sharp dip failed to mask bleaker news for the country's economic prospects.
THE SNP has signalled a decisive shift away from its "land of milk and honey" vision of independence and towards a more warts and all case for leaving the UK, as it continues to prepare the ground for a second independence referendum.
SCOTLAND'S politicians are again divided - this time on what to read during their summer holidays.
