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6 hours ago | 
dailyrecord.co.uk | Chris McCall |Chris Mccall
EXCLUSIVE: The Nationalists' are being tipped to win a crunch by-election next month despite some high profile endorsements for the Scottish Labour candidate. The SNP has overtaken Scottish Labour to be named the "solid" favourite to win the Hamilton by-election on June 5. Bookmakers told the Record that punters were tipping the Nationalists to see off Scottish Labour and a surging Reform UK when local voters head to the polls next month.
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7 hours ago | 
dailyrecord.co.uk | Chris McCall |Chris Mccall
Real average weekly earnings in 2024 were just £8 higher than they were in 2008. Hard-pressed Scots workers are £15,000 a year worse off than they should be due to flatlining wages and the impact of "runaway inflation", a new report has warned. Research by the Future Economy Scotland think tank found workers would be £297 a week richer if wages had continued to grow "as normal" after 2007/08 financial crash.
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1 day ago | 
dailyrecord.co.uk | Chris McCall |Chris Mccall
The Scottish Labour leader said the UK needs a “well-managed” immigration system that controls the country’s borders. Anas Sarwar has endorsed Keir Starmer's planned crackdown on immigration and insisted the numbers arriving in the UK had to come down "across the board". The Scottish Labour leader spoke out today after a backlash from the SNP Government and some Scots business leaders to the Prime Minister's speech on the matter earlier this week.
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1 day ago | 
dailyrecord.co.uk | Chris McCall |Chris Mccall
John Keenan, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Paisley, expressed his “sadness” that MSPs backed an historic law change on people's right to choose the timing of their death. A leading Scots bishop has claimed the legalisation of Assisted Dying would create a "state suicide service". John Keenan, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Paisley, expressed his “sadness” after MSPs backed the general principles of the Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill following a four-hour debate yesterday.
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1 day ago | 
dailyrecord.co.uk | Chris McCall |Chris Mccall
A new report is calling for the SNP Government to commit to a new national target of building 25,000 new homes per year. Scotland's economic growth is being held back by a chronic shortage of housing, a new report has warned. More than 100 experts from local government, universities, housebuilders and construction companies gave their views in the new Housing Supply for a Growing Economy publication.
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1 day ago | 
dailyrecord.co.uk | Chris McCall |Chris Mccall
EXCLUSIVE: There is disagreement among the parties over the format of a live BBC debate ahead of the by-election next month. The SNP is demanding BBC Scotland invite candidates in a crunch by-election to take part in a special edition of Debate Night. The national broadcaster is set to screen the live episode in the week before voters go to the polls in the Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse constituency on June 5.
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2 days ago | 
dailyrecord.co.uk | Chris McCall |Chris Mccall
Campaigners hailed a "watershed" moment in the history of Scottish devolution and praised MSPs for "listening to dying people and reflecting their views". Scotland has moved one step closer to legalising assisted dying after MSPs voted in favour of an historic change to the law. In emotional scenes at the Scottish Parliament following a four hour debate, politicians backed the landmark move by 70 votes to 56, with one abstention.
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2 days ago | 
dailyrecord.co.uk | Chris McCall |Chris Mccall
Elena Whitman spoke of her mother's decision "to starve herself and hasten her inevitable death" after being diagnosed with terminal lung cancer aged just 58. An MSP has shared the heartbreaking story of why her mother chose to starve herself to death after being diagnosed with terminal cancer. Elena Whitham, a former SNP minister, told the Scottish Parliament today that her mum Irene McLeod took two weeks to die after making that decision in secret back in 2014.
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2 days ago | 
dailyrecord.co.uk | Chris McCall |Chris Mccall
Patrick Spencer has been charged in connection with an investigation into two alleged sexual assaults. A Tory MP has been charged with two counts of sexual assault in connection with incidents linked to an exclusive club in London, police announced today. Patrick Spencer has been charged in connection with an investigation into two alleged sexual assaults. The incidents reportedly occurred at the Groucho - one of London's most famous private members' clubs - in August 2023.
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2 days ago | 
dailyrecord.co.uk | Chris McCall |Chris Mccall
The Glen Rosa was supposed to be launched in 2018 and enter service the following year but has been subject to repeated delays. The shipyard at the centre of the one biggest scandals of the devolution era has announced another delay in the competition of a long-awaited car ferry. Ferguson Marine, which was nationalised by SNP ministers in 2019, said it would not be able to complete the Glen Rosa until the second quarter of 2026.
