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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...

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...

Glasgow City Council have rejected calls to bid for First Bus services, while Aberdeen and Falkirk councils have started talks with the company A Transport Bill currently in progress in...

Contributing to our week of special coverage on refugees and asylum seekers, Ben Wray looks at whether the West is equipped to deal with the coming climate refugee crisis, which will...

Common Weal’s Energy Working Group has published their latest paper on improving Scotland’s energy strategy. Carbon-Free, Poverty-Free looks at the challenge of reducing carbon emissions in Scotland’s rural areas. The...

​​​​Researchers hope new inquiry will help identify steps that can be taken to tackle anti-Muslim bigotry Holyrood’s Cross-Party Group on Tackling Islamophobia and researchers at Newcastle University will cooperate on...

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...

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...

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...

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,...