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PETER Murrell has hit out at the BBCs coverage of the Holyrood election. The SNP chief executive said the broadcaster had left Tory politicians unchallenged, despite the fact votes for the Tories were down so far in the count. He tweeted: "Weirdly opposition politicians unchallenged on @BBCScotlandNews claiming vote increases, and yet results say that their party votes actually down after 41 seats declared." Weirdly opposition politicians unchallenged on @BBCScotlandNews claiming vote...

A LONDON journalist has been told to "calm down" after making a series of bizarre indyref2 claims.  Dan Hodges, who works for the Mail on Sunday, said police will close down polling stations during another independence referendum, as they tried to do in Catalonia. He tweeted: "Do people actually realise what were heading for in Scotland. Were literally going to see the police closing down polling stations. When people say the UK Government should go to court to block a referendum this is...

Sturgeon: Scottish independence leader pushing for fresh referendum AFP 2 hrs ago AFP © RUSSELL CHEYNE Sturgeons mother once joked about her daughters hard-working tendencies: "The phone is never switched off" Scottish National Party (SNP) leader Nicola Sturgeon is using her partys decisive victory in elections for the devolved parliament to push Westminster for a fresh referendum on independence from the UK. The 50-year-old has become the pre-eminent force in Scottish poli...

Why failing to win an SNP majority would be dangerous for Nicola Sturgeon The Scottish First Minister’s internal and external enemies will be emboldened if she falls short of outright victory.  Nicola Sturgeon at Annette Street school polling station on 6 May 2021 in Glasgow. What if she fails? It’s a question that until recently hardly seemed worth asking. Even on Thursday, as Scots went to the ballot box, the overwhelming likelihood was that Nicola Sturgeon would be granted her pro-in...

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon on the campaign trail in Dumfries and Galloway on Monday And, if re-elected tomorrow she vowed to “deliver the policies that ensures this part of the country can fulfil its vast potential”. Nicola Sturgeon visited the Midsteeple Quarter project on Monday before enjoying coffee in Kings Cafe (Image: Dumfries And Galloway Standard) Join thousands of others in getting the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox.Invalid EmailSomething went wrong, pl...

ECK CLAIMS Alex Salmond ‘sad’ over collapse of relationship with Nicola Sturgeon after claims he said he could have ‘destroyed’ her 20:42, 4 May 2021 Updated: 20:43, 4 May 2021 ALEX Salmond today admitted he feels “sad” about the collapse of his relationship with Nicola Sturgeon as he hit back at claims he said he could have “destroyed” his successor. The Alba Party leader insisted quotes in an article for the New Yorker were “totally taken out of context” after the mag rep...

Mardi, 4 Mai, 2021 - 08:46 The country’s leader asks voters which kind of society they prefer to live in: Brexit Britain or a social-democratic Scotland. On a sharp morning on the southern edge of Glasgow, Nicola Sturgeon, the First Minister of Scotland and the leader of the Scottish National Party, arrived at a dentist’s office for a photo opportunity. Scotland has had its own government since the late nineties, when certain powers were devolved to the country, almost three hundred years a...

The SNP also issued two statement from her today which failed to mention either of them.  After the Scottish Government launched a sexual misconduct probe into accusations made against Mr Salmond in 2018 about his time as First Minister, Mr Salmond took it to court. He successfully challenged the process in a judicial review at the Court of Session, showing it had been unlawful and “tained by apparent bias”, and was awarded £512,000 in costs. In the aftermath, it emerged he had to...

SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon launched two "Both Votes SNP" election campaign buses in Edinburgh this morning with days to go until the…

Updated: 8:35, 1 May 2021 NICOLA Sturgeon this week hit out at the “stench” encircling Boris Johnson’s Tories. But the SNP have been strongly criticised for problems of their own over the past five years, when the party has lurched from one scandal to another. 11 The SNP has been rocked by a series of controversies over the past five years Controversy has dogged the once-disciplined Nats throughout their whole term in office, including Finance Secretary Derek Mackay pestering a schoolboy ...