Clegg urges party to back him on slashing spending
	Mon 15 Sep 08
	Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg yesterday urged his party to back him over radical new plans to fund tax cuts by slashing public spending.

Energy firms pledge £321m funding to help cut household bills

Monday 15th September 2008

Scottish consumers will benefit from £321m investment over the next three years to help reduce household fuel bills, it was announced yesterday.

Ambulance crews ‘miss response targets in most areas’

Monday 15th September 2008

Ambulance crews are failing to meet emergency response targets in 10 out of Scotland’s 12 health board areas, Labour said yesterday.

Call for probe into Ashcroft donations

Monday 15th September 2008

The Electoral Commission was last night urged to investigate claims that millionaire Tory donor Lord Ashcroft had channelled money to the Conservative Party from overseas.

Northern Ireland faces fresh crisis

Monday 15th September 2008

Northern Ireland’s power-sharing government seemed set for crisis yesterday after Sinn Fein signalled a crucial cabinet meeting planned for Thursday was unlikely to proceed.

A standing issue over football

Monday 15th September 2008

A ban on standing at football matches – outlawed after 96 fans were killed in the 1989 Hillsborough disaster - should be lifted, the Liberal Democrats said yesterday.

Bid for a leadership challenge ‘beginning of the end’ for Brown

12:12am Saturday 13th September 2008

Gordon Brown's authority as Prime Minister suffered a major blow last night when a member of his own government broke ranks and called for a leadership challenge.

	‘I’ve done my 10 years. I think I’ll have a wee bit of fun’
	12:13am Sat 13 Sep 08
	Interview: Other leaders leave to spend more time with their family, after a visit from the men in grey suits, or doing the honourable thing when offered the fabled pearl-handled revolver.

Goldie calls for ‘bread and butter politics’ from Tories

12:14am Saturday 13th September 2008

Annabel Goldie, the Scottish Tory leader, yesterday took her party's campaign to Northern Ireland, with the message that Conservatives on both sides of the Irish Sea want to work on "bread and butter issues" instead of the constitution.

McLeish wants England to have its own voice

12:15am Saturday 13th September 2008

There is growing grief, grudge, grievance, backlash and vitriol in England in reaction to Scottish devolution, according to Henry McLeish, the former first minister, who called yesterday for England to have its own voice.

	New MP in racism row over councillor and AK47
	Fri 12 Sep 08
	Scotland's newest MP yesterday sparked a racism controversy, by speaking out against critics of a councillor who was suspended by the SNP for firing a Kalashnikov while on a trip to Pakistan with his family.

Labour hopes for an outright victory in leadership contest

Friday 12th September 2008

Analysys: Labour will elect a new Scottish leader tomorrow, and the party will be hoping for a clear-cut victor.

Exchange of fire over Kalashnikov

Friday 12th September 2008

Holyrood Sketch: Winter is coming in. Throw another “Barnett direct-consequential” on the fire.

Brown accused of dithering over giving more tax powers to Holryood

Friday 12th September 2008

Gordon Brown was last night accused by the SNP of “dithering” over his stance on whether or not the Scottish Parliament should have more tax powers.

Replacements for 250 crumbling schools due ‘by 2011’

Friday 12th September 2008

Around 250 schools are expected to be built, funded, or under construction before the next Holyrood elections, according to Education Secretary Fiona Hyslop.

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