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Would anyone who lived through the years from 2007 to 2014 recognise them as the Golden Age of Scottish government? That was the picture Alex Salmond tried to paint when he appeared at Westminster.
Last modified on Tue 15 Dec 2020 14.36 EST Scotland’s drug-related death toll has risen to another grim record, as long-delayed figures published on Tuesday revealed a death rate more than 3.5 times that of the UK as a whole and higher than those reported for all EU countries. The public health emergency, which was the subject of political deadlock between the Holyrood and Westminster governments over drug legislation before the pandemic, was condemned by experts as a “national tragedy and disgrace”. There were 1,264 drug-related deaths registered in Scotland in 2019, an increase of 6% ...