Labour’s victory suggests SNP honeymoon may be ending

12:50am Friday 7th November 2008

Editorial Comment: When the Glenrothes by-election was called, bookmakers were quoting odds of 4/1 on an SNP victory, despite a previous Labour majority of more than 10,000.

	Public watchdogs are scrapped as Swinney revamps scrutiny system
	12:14am Fri 7 Nov 08
	Several high-profile public service watchdogs are to be abolished amid a series of mergers to create a streamlined network of scrutiny bodies.

There’s no direct line to the Oval Office if you live in Glenrothes

12:15am Friday 7th November 2008

I think I want a recount. America gets Barack Obama and we get greetings from Donald Trump. America gets its first black president. We get parliamentarians making contorted attempts to connect an epoch-making event with a by-election in Glenrothes.

Patients’ Rights Bill to give 12-week treatment guarantee

12:15am Friday 7th November 2008

Further details of a £270m funding package to reduce waiting times across Scotland were revealed yesterday. Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon, told the Scottish Parliament of the plans included in a Patients' Rights Bill, which are being consulted on.

By-election campaign closed with clash over care charges

12:43am Friday 7th November 2008

Alex Salmond and Iain Gray yesterday clashed over council care charges - the topic which Labour had sought to make the defining issue of the Glenrothes by-election.

Commission to claw back £13m in wrongly paid grants

12:16am Friday 7th November 2008

The European Commission yesterday confirmed it would claw back £13.3m from the government because of accounting errors in grant aid applications for projects in the Highlands and Islands between 1994 and 1999.

Public-private deals ‘needed in transport’

12:17am Friday 7th November 2008

Stagecoach entrepreneur Brian Souter insisted yesterday that public and private collaboration was needed to improve Scotland's transport.

Port authorities criticised for carrying out too few checks

12:17am Friday 7th November 2008

Britain's port authorities run far fewer checks on imported items than their European counterparts and systems for detecting smuggled drugs and counterfeit goods are riddled with innacuracies and inefficiency, an official report reveals today.

Scottish quangos face axe in new shake-up

12:06pm Thursday 6th November 2008

Complaint and inspection agencies in Scotland will be abolished or merged under plans revealed today by the Scottish Government.

Voters choose between the Brown bounce and Salmond’s honeymoon

12:21am Thursday 6th November 2008

Glenrothes by-election: Fifers go to the poll today in a by-election which will send out a message to the whole UK about the “Brown bounce” or the end of Alex Salmond’s honeymoon.

Obamania is here and everyone proclaims him to be ‘one of us’

12:25am Thursday 6th November 2008

Obamania came to the Commons yesterday as party leaders fell over themselves to praise the US President-Elect, telling everyone he was one helluva guy and their bestest American buddy.

Brown will work with new leader

Thursday 6th November 2008

Gordon Brown yesterday promised to work with US President Elect Barack Obama to build a new fairer global society in which hard work is rewarded, families are protected and markets are governed by morals.

Ministers defiant as Europe votes to end opt-out

12:26am Thursday 6th November 2008

The European Parliament's employment committee yesterday voted to end the UK opt-out from the European Union's working time directive.

Swinney: Council tax can be frozen in Scotland next year

4:35pm Wednesday 5th November 2008

Local authorities are receiving enough Scottish Government cash to be able to freeze the council tax next year, MSPs heard today.

Political battle fought in the shadow of world events

12:11am Wednesday 5th November 2008

Glenrothes by-election: It has been one of the longest by-elections in history, but for the most part it has been conducted in the shadow of other events and tomorrow voters will go to the polls barely noticed.

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