The Liberal Democrats in Scotland today pressed the SNP and the Scottish government's finance secretary John Swinney to make tax cuts as part of the country's next budget.

LOTHIANS SNP MSP Shirley-Anne Somerville has welcomed a drop in the number of people arrested for drink-driving.

A councillor who quit the SNP last month and was trumpeted as “Labour’s newest councillor” by the party’s Scottish leader Iain Gray is now expected to go independent.

THE Scottish Government last night snubbed a Conservative offer of talks over how to fund the new bridge over the Forth.

I see from the BBC that the Tories have selected tv fisherman Jimmy Buchan to contest Banff and Buchan in 2009 or 2010, whichever year Gordon Brown feels moved to call an election. In a seat where Alex Salmond is set to step away from his 12,000 majority, passing the SNP reins to Eilidh Whiteford, and where the Tories are the main challengers with Labour out in fourth, another victory isn't i...

Tories today angrily rounded on the SNP in a row over prison overcrowding.

Frustratingly, I had an idea for this post before The Scotsman launched their story about Holyrood missing their green targets but I can neatly combine the two ideas together. No, my original concern about the greenness of the SNP stems from their 2007 election victory.  It's fair to say that said victory was off the back of the strength of their vote in the regional count. The SNP only ...

Scottish ministers refuse to accept Westminster's decision to rule out allowing the party to spread out over 20 years the £2bn cost of replacing the suspension bridge

SNP MSPs are being urged by the top brass to steer clear of foreign holidays this year to avoid embarrassing the party during its "Homecoming" celebrations.

PLANS for a new Forth road bridge were in disarray last night after the UK Government threw out a request to give the SNP administration a multimillion-pound cash advance.