Unison Scotland members will discuss how to respond to a move by councils to impose a pay deal on 150,000 workers.

A CULL of senior managers at Scotland's biggest city council will result in 103 executives each receiving £128,000 in pay-offs and payments to their pension funds, it emer

Social networking website Facebook is coming under unprecedented pressure from its users to switch to renewable energy. In one of the web’s fastest-growing environmental campaigns, Greenpeace international says at least 500,000 people have now protested at the organisation’s intention to run its giant new data centre mainly on electricity

Honesty is an attractive though rare quality in a politician, and Alistair Darling’s self-awareness and morose delivery always grabs attention. Last night, the former chancellor told a conference of bankers that the 50 percent levy on bonuses over £25,000 was a failure. The FT reports him saying: ‘I think it will be a one-off thing because, frankly, the very people you are after h...

ALMOST 30 Scottish firms have been successfully prosecuted for serious breaches of health and safety laws in the first year of a new dedicated unit within the prosecution serv

More than a hundred senior executives at Scotland's largest local authority will receive average 'golden goodbyes' of £128,000 each as part of a £127 million redundancy package.

SNP politicians are seeking assurances about 4,000 Scottish shipbuilding jobs after it emerged that defence chiefs are looking at plans to share the use of aircraft carriers w

A former official in the House of Commons fees office faces jail for siphoning off almost £6,000 in bogus MPs' expenses claims to clear his own debts.

OK,  so toll road may or may not be of value. So, how do we try and work out whether it is of value? In the spring of 2006 it attracted just under 60,000 drivers a day. By the start of this year, the figure had fallen to just over 40,000, marginally

Labour leadership contender Ed Balls will call today for an extra £6 billion to be invested to build an additional 100,000 affordable homes.