Call for loan to drive energy efficiency bid

12:49am Saturday 14th June 2008

Scottish ministers' team of top economic advisers say a loans scheme, repayable over several years, is needed to entice people into making energy efficiency moves.

Angiolini says that conviction rate for rape remains too low

12:49am Saturday 14th June 2008

Scotland’s top law officer said yesterday that the conviction rate for rape is “clearly too low”.

Criminal cash given to youth projects

12:47am Saturday 14th June 2008

More than £1m of cash seized from criminals is being shared between 110 youth projects, the Scottish Government announced yesterday.

	Vindicated champion or outsider?
	12:56am Fri 13 Jun 08
	Analysis: For someone who is known as a straight talker, David Davis’s resignation speech, delivered on the steps of the Commons because he was refused permission from the Speaker to address the chamber, displayed the hubris that typifies the man.

SNP in move to lower voting age to 16

12:08am Friday 13th June 2008

The SNP government is determined to give 16-year-olds the vote and is demanding that Westminster hand over the power to allow this, it was claimed yesterday.

He who dares wins ... but it's a high-risk strategy

12:01am Friday 13th June 2008

Profile: David Davis, once seen as the natural inheritor of the Conservative leadership, might just have gone for a long walk into the political wilderness by resigning as an MP.

Scots student debt rises to £2bn despite SNP election pledge

12:22am Friday 13th June 2008

The government was yesterday facing demands to apologise to Scottish students over the pre-election promise to "dump the debt" after new figures revealed that the total amount owed has passed the £2bn mark.

‘The village loves him ... but I don’t agree with party policy’

12:05am Friday 13th June 2008

Reaction: David Davis’s constituents reacted with shock yesterday to the news of his resignation and the impending by-election.

‘We allowed the state to lock up potentially innocent citizens’

12:06am Friday 13th June 2008

Statement: “The name of my constituency is Haltemprice and Howden – Haltemprice is derived from a medieval proverb meaning noble endeavour."

Pupils welcome bid to tackle election apathy

12:13am Friday 13th June 2008

Pupils at St Mungo’s Academy in the east end of Glasgow yesterday welcomed the plans, which they said would help tackle voter apathy and give young people the opportunity to have their say on issues that affect them.

Healthy respect is no laughing matter

12:15am Friday 13th June 2008

Holyrood sketch: If there is a joke with the punch line Clostridium Difficile I don't want to hear it. Contrary to all those edgy comedians, some things just aren't funny. The fact can put a crimp in your basic jolly sketch.

MSPs decide to ban under-18s from sunbeds

12:14am Friday 13th June 2008

Changes in the law which will see under-18s banned from using sunbeds were passed by MSPs yesterday.

Finnie attacks reform of allowances for MSPs

12:18am Friday 13th June 2008

Holyrood last night rejected the idea that some MSPs would become "second-class citizens" as its members voted through a new package of allowances that would allow better pay for staff.

Ministers reject call to change teenage sex law

12:01am Thursday 12th June 2008

Ministers have rejected a proposal to decriminalise sex between young teenagers, opting instead for a compromise involving referral to the childrens’ hearing system.

	Holyrood powers commission not a rubber stamp, says Calman
	12:01am Thu 12 Jun 08
	The Commission on Scottish Devolution will not “rubber stamp” a pre-determined agenda, according to Sir Kenneth Calman, the man leading the investigation into whether more powers should be devolved to the Holyrood parliament.

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