Early last year I briefly reported on the shocking comments about the alleged rape of a child made by one of its Glasgow councillors, William O’Rourke. The case has now finally worked its way through the system and he has been banned from holding public office: A Glasgow Labour councillor has been banned from holding

This is the full text of Ed Miliband's speech in Glasgow earlier today: Thank you Johann. And thank you Margaret and Anas for everything you're doing. Let me start directly by talking about the developments on the issue of RBS bonuses. Stephen Hester has done the right thing. I welcome his decision not to take his bonus. But I am sorry we have a Prime Minister so out of touch with the Br...

A Labour councillor in Glasgow who had been de-selected by the party defects to the SNP.

Check against delivery Thank you Johann. And thank you Margaret and Anas for everything you’re doing.

Labour leader Ed Miliband is giving a speech in Glasgow and is expected to address the issue of Scottish independence.

Ed Miliband will make the case for keeping Scotland as part of the United Kingdom in a speech in Glasgow on Monday. Miliband is expected to describe the “progressive” argument for rejecting independence in what the party billed as a major speech on the constitution. He’s not listed there as telling them the truth. That

Holyrood offers to pick up half the extra £17bn bill to continue the line north to Glasgow and Edinburgh in plea to include Scotland from the start

Matt Lygate was born on 26/12/1938 in Govan Glasgow. From early on, he became an accomplished artist, orator, and thinker. He always loved the great outdoors and would often dissapear for hours up hills and down gullies to the distress of his parents. As a teenager, he moved to Sunderland with his family and became one of the best renouned tailor's cutters of his time. Matt loved his family a...

On Saturday 21 January,  a dozen or so members of the Scottish arm of the Social Liberal Forum, including former parliamentarians Robert Brown and Elspeth Attwooll,  braved a bright but raw Scottish morning to meet in Partick Burgh Hall in the heart of Glasgow’s West End.  This steering committee’s job was to plan the advance

Former Labour MEP for Glasgow and anti-apartheid campaigner Janey Buchan dies in Brighton at the aged of 85.