Labour backs high-visibility clothing for community service
	12:34am Sat 3 Jan 09
	Offenders carrying out community service should be made to wear high-visibility clothing to let the public see they are carrying out worthwhile duties, according to the Labour Party in Scotland.

Classroom revolution is under threat, say teachers

12:50am Friday 2nd January 2009

Scots teachers yesterday warned that a flagship government initiative to reform what is taught in schools could fail through lack of funding.

	Swinney: Futures Trust will deliver schools and hospitals
	12:51am Fri 2 Jan 09
	Finance Secretary John Swinney claims the SNP’s much-vaunted successor to private finance, the Scottish Futures Trust, is about to start delivering new schools and hospitals.

MPs urge independence for government ethics watchdogs

12:51am Friday 2nd January 2009

Watchdogs set up to oversee the ethical standards of the UK Government should have more independence and not be appointed and funded by Whitehall, a report said today.

Murphy on the attack over use of Saltire

12:52am Friday 2nd January 2009

Scottish Secretary Jim Murphy has made a thinly-veiled attack on the Scottish Government and the SNP, over their use of the Saltire and handling of the Homecoming 2009 celebrations.

Claims of Guantanamo prisoners for Britain ‘are overblown’

12:01am Friday 2nd January 2009

The Foreign Office last night refused to rule out suggestions that Britain could volunteer to take in foreign terror suspects from Guantanamo Bay, but dismissed speculation as "overblown".

Call for better terms on PFI after bailout

12:53am Friday 2nd January 2009

Government ownership of banks should lead to better terms for PFI contracts, according to an SNP MSP.

Labour sparks row over patients being ‘redirected’ from Lanarkshire hospitals

12:40am Friday 2nd January 2009

The operation of two major hospitals in Scotland is at the centre of a political row after claims that they have “closed” to new admissions on almost 150 occasions in the last year.

Year ahead will not be easy, warns Brown

12:53am Friday 2nd January 2009

Gordon Brown has warned the country that 2009 "won't be easy" as it faces up to the economic crisis.

Balls admits housing prices still in bubble

12:49am Friday 2nd January 2009

Cabinet minister Ed Balls said today there had "definitely" been a house price bubble in the past two years.

Cameron evokes Hadrian in attack on ‘arrogant’ Labour

12:59am Wednesday 31st December 2008

David Cameron last night launched his most withering attack yet on the UK Government, claiming it had been "corrupted by power" and that the longer Gordon Brown remained in office, the worse the British economy would get.

MSP condemns attack on ship called Dignity

12:28am Wednesday 31st December 2008

Hugh O'Donnell, the Liberal Democrat MSP for Central Scotland, has expressed dismay at reports that Israeli forces had attacked an aid boat bound for Gaza in international waters.

	Obama hits form on his Hawaiian trip
	Wed 31 Dec 08
	Into the second week of a getaway holiday in his native Hawaii, President Elect Barack Obama and a group of friends have visited a private golf club near his $9 million rented, beach-front home.

Promise to close the monitoring loophole

12:58am Wednesday 31st December 2008

The Justice Minister insisted yesterday that a loophole exploited by some sex offenders to avoid monitoring would be closed at the first legislative opportunity.

Brown ‘against assisted suicide’

12:57am Wednesday 31st December 2008

Gordon Brown yesterday insisted he was "totally against" relaxing the law to allow assisted suicide.

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