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Scottish salmon is a true success story for Scottish food and drink and is a shining example of what Scottish businesses can achieve when international connections are deepened and opportunities are harnessed.
Ahead of what could be a difficult winter for households, we also call on the UK Government to ensure people know about all benefits they could be applying for and urge them to match our Scottish Child Payment, end the freeze on Local…
We are delivering the strongest package of cost-of-living support for low-income families anywhere in the UK, including £3.5 billion to help reduce pressures on household budgets.
Our new Benefit Take-up Strategy works towards a more joined-up, proactive and person-centred system of support, in line with our wider approach to public service reform.
Encouraging people to access the support they are entitled to is one of the most powerful ways to keep children out of poverty and put more money in the pockets of families.
Aberdeen will always be more important than any politician.
I'm sorry that Aberdeen is more important than the MPs that are elected.
We stood on the Garvaghy Road to support that community at a time of great pressure and vulnerability, at a time where the peace and peace of mind of that community was under real threat, at a time where their right to live free from…
The speaker’s comments demonstrate a clear disdain for our city, and the people who live here.
They may not care, but I can assure them the public can point to a whole host of examples that show the BBC chiefs in London don’t give a toss about Scotland.
Days after BBC shut down the Scotland channel and it seems the London overlords can’t even be bothered to check where the city on everyone's lips today is on the map.
With thousands of people showing their opposition to this proposal, Dumfries and Galloway Council and the Scottish Government must listen to the voices of the local community.
The Scottish Government has said that no decisions will be reached before the end of the year, and that they will have guidance in place by December. That guidance needs to be as thorough as possible.
The community have been given just weeks to respond to the possibility of the world’s largest data centre being set up on their doorstep – but they have already made their position clear. This cannot be allowed to go ahead.
This goes to the very heart of why independence is now the preferred choice of the Scottish people – every pound of revenue will be used to benefit our people as we build Scotland anew back home in the EU.
All this talk of a new Energy Wealth Fund is meaningless unless every single penny invested in it from Scotland’s waters is reinvested back into our nation.
Our vast resources should, and we now know can, be made to benefit our people. Our energy wealth has been hidden from us, but Scotland won’t get fooled again.
This week has cemented an injustice in the minds of Scots – it is Scotland’s energy and it should be in Scotland’s hands.