CONTROVERSIAL plans for a £5 million security extension at the front of the Scottish Parliament building could be ditched because of the cost.

SCOTTISH Parliament bosses could spend as much as £5 million on an extension at the front of the Holyrood building for a new security hall, it emerged today.

NEW security measures at the Scottish Parliament are set to land taxpayers with a bill of £1.8 million.

An MSP is in line to get a new car from the Scottish Parliament after the building's expensive security precautions against terrorist attack wrecked her old one.

Sounds to me like our elected representatives are getting nervous: A ring of steel and concrete is set to be erected around the Scottish Parliament, more than two years after MI5 warned that existing security measures were not good enough. Under plans put forward by the Scottish Parliament's Corporate Body, a total of 162 new bollards will be put up along pavements running beside the Parliament bu...

The Scottish Parliament (Elections etc.) Order 2010 has been tabled in Parliament this week bringing about changes in the law for the Scottish Parliament election

POTENTIALLY lethal faults were discovered on the Scottish Parliament's roof at a part of the £414 million building directly overlooking passers-by on the Royal Mile.

SCOTTISH Parliament bosses are spending £223,000 of taxpayers' money to build a "triangular roundabout" as a security measure outside the Holyrood building.

Official accounts have revealed the continuing cost to taxpayers of running the Scottish Parliament, with the total put at £72 million last year.

THE paved area in front of the Scottish Parliament is to be turned into a building site for the next four months.