Month: June 2019

Linda Fabiani MSP: “The Treasury should pay the money back” Fort Kinnaird retail park in East Lothian sold last year for £167 million by Crown Estate’s England & Wales UK ...

Solar industry already hit by ending of the feed-in tariff scheme last September Treasury announced legislation to increase VAT due on solar panels by 15 per cent from October VAT ...

Beyond the Noise with David Jamieson is a weekly podcast with CommonSpace journalist David Jamieson, where he gets behind the 24/7 news cycle and gets to heart of issues, trying ...

The first of a new regular online show with CommonSpace journalists David Jamieson and Rhiannon Davies In the pilot episode, CommonSpace is joined by freelance journalist Eve Livingston to take ...

A public consultation has been launched by Scottish Greens Holyrood co-leader Alison Johnstone on her bill that will give legal protection to foxes and hares Proposed legislation would protect foxes, mountain ...

The Moments of Freedom group is made of up New Scots women who arrived into Clydebank through the Syrian Resettlement Programme. Several of them arrived on the same day – 24 November, ...

Sarah Glynn, Scottish Solidarity with Kurdistan activist, looks at the re-run of Turkey’s mayoral election on Sunday , which has led to a humiliating defeat for authoritarian Turkish President Recep Tayyip ...

Serco have come under fire after sending “the wrong letter” to an asylum seeker awaiting the result of their claim.  A Serco resident received a letter which falsely stated their ...

The UK government’s safety watchdog has launched an investigation into a prolonged leak of highly flammable gas at ExxonMobil’s petrochemical complex at Mossmorran in Fife. The Health and Safety Executive ...

Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt’s campaigns in Scotland have come across as trite, patronising and lacking in politics, David Jamieson finds THERE’S an idea in some quarters that Jeremy Hunt and ...