South Scotland isn't devoid of a few interesting contests. For Labour, there's the vexed question of who to replace Cathy Jamieson as candidate in Carrick, Cumnock & Doon Valley, particularly as a QIB would make this seat highly marginal. But there's another interesting decision for the party. With Cunninghame South leaving the region, and SNP-held Kilmarnock & Irvine Valley...

Ed Miliband's campaign have just press released that they have raised £39k in small donations and that seven extra MPs have signed up to Ed's campaign: Martin Caton MP (did not nominate any candidate) Cathy Jamieson MSP, MP (nominated Burnham) Chi Onwurah MP (nominated Abbott) Linda Riordan MP (nominated Abbott) Gavin Shuker MP (nominated Abbott) Jon Trickett MP (nominated Abbott) Joan Walley MP ...

THE Finance Bill debate raged long into the night in the House of Commons this week.

Labour MSP Cathy Jamieson will stand for former defence secretary Des Browne's seat at the next general election.

LOCAL authorities should be given greater freedom to decide how they allocate their housing stock, shadow housing secretary Cathy Jamieson urged yesterday.

A SENIOR figure is to quit Labour's Holyrood front bench after deciding to stand for a Westminster seat, it was announced today.

Scottish Labour's Cathy Jamieson is to quit the party's Holyrood front bench after deciding to stand for a Westminster seat.

A SENIOR figure is to quit Labour's Holyrood front bench after deciding to stand for a Westminster seat, it was announced today.

There's a history of Parliamentarians and ex-Parliamentarians switching institutions, so should Cathy Jamieson succeed in her bid to be the candidate for Kilmarnock & Loudoun next year, her name may as well be Legion. Of course, Winnie Ewing was the first to do it, all the way back in 1979: despite having lost her Moray and Nairn seat to the Tories earlier that year, the winner of the Ham...

We learn this morning that Cathy Jamieson, the Labour MSP for Carrick, Cumnock & Doon Valley and Shadow Housing Secretary, seeks to replace Des Browne as MP for Kilmarnock & Loudoun. She should be wary as history is against her: only one sitting MSP has managed to make it to Westminster - David Mundell, then MSP for the South of Scotland and now MP for Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale & Tweed...