Solar industry already hit by ending of the feed-in tariff scheme last September

Linda Fabiani MSP: “The Treasury should pay the money back”

Glasgow City Council have rejected calls to bid for First Bus services, while Aberdeen and Falkirk councils have started talks with the company

​​​​Researchers hope new inquiry will help identify steps that can be taken to tackle anti-Muslim bigotry

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 (particularly) Boris Johnson are ‘big beasts’ who will play a stronger hand in Scotland than Theresa May ever did.

Yet the campaigning efforts of both in Scotland, in the run-up to the Tory leadership election in late July, expose this idea.

Serco have come under fire after sending “the wrong letter” to an asylum seeker awaiting the result of their claim. 

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

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 to find the substance behind the headlines.

THIS week Jamieson is joined by Robina Qureshi, director of Postivie Action in housing, to discuss the Serco's plans to evict some 300 refugees from their homes in Scotland and the mounting campaign to stop them.

They discuss:

00:38 – What are the latest developments in Serco’s drive to evict refugees from their homes?

After a week of often emotive debate, the Planning Bill has now passed – what are the major consequences?

THE most amended bill in the history of the Scottish Parliament has now been passed, by 78 to 26.

NASUWT union holds protest at North Lanarkshire Council offices