Unison has recommended local government workers accept the deal, which amounts to a 4% rise this year and 3.5% next year.

Hiroshi Suzuki described Scotland as an ‘important’ trading partner as he toured a distillery with First Minister John Swinney.

The Deputy Prime Minister campaigned alongside Davy Russell on Thursday.

The Scottish Labour leader said the Reform UK leader ‘thinks Hamilton is some kind of show on the West End of London’.

The UK Government said the improvement will cover an area equivalent to thousands of football pitches.

The Reform UK leader defended his party’s attack ad against the Scottish Labour leader.

The Just Transition Commission said urgent action is needed to ensure the transition from fossil fuels happens fairly.

In a ballot of University and College Union Scotland members at the university, 84% of those who voted backed strike action.

The Scottish Government is taking forward research to identify individual American states for exports after scrapping the plans last year.

The Future Economy Scotland think tank said stunted wage growth since the financial crisis has left workers worse off.

The Scottish Government’s community fund has been met with £4m by the UK Government’s Great British Energy firm.

The Scottish Labour leader backed the Prime Minister’s plans but refused to endorse his language, which has been criticised by some Labour figures.

Some 71 MSPs and 10 MPs from across the political spectrum warned Rachel Reeves that delaying Acorn will ‘jeopardise’ Scotland’s industrial sector.

Asked whether he had put independence on the back burner, the First Minister said he had to ‘directly’ deal with Scots’ priorities this year.

The Deputy First Minister said she does not think ‘any amount of legal drafting can prevent people feeling pressured to die’.

The Scottish Labour leader accused the First Minister of wanting to ‘defraud’ the people of Scotland during a speech in Glasgow.

The Survation survey suggests Nigel Farage’s party will beat the Tories and Labour to become the main opposition at the Scottish Parliament.

The agreement will put ‘more money in people’s pockets’, Rachel Reeves said during a visit to a distillery in East Lothian.

John Swinney’s plans were also criticised by Scottish Labour leader who asked the First Minister: ‘Is that it?’

The former first minister of Scotland also rejected calls for her to apologise to critics of gender self-ID.