Report by Andy Wightman MSP and Dr Ruth Tingay found analysis of grouse-shooting estates employment and wages “equates to an average salary of “£11,401 which is below the level of the national minimum wage”

CAMPAIGNERS for grouse moor reform have hit back at criticism ahead of the launch of their new coalition, Revive, after the Scottish Gamekeepers Association said they wanted to “kill livelihoods”.

Following a year of intense debate around ‘gender recognition’, five trans young people speak to Caitlin Logan about what it really means to be trans in Scotland today

CAMERON was 14 years old when he first had the language to pinpoint why his mental health had deteriorated two years earlier as puberty came knocking: he was trans. Now, an 18-year-old computer science student, he sits in a bustling coffee shop next to a table of burly men and speaks with the good-humoured ease of any other boy his age.

The regular turnover of private sector tenancies in Edinburgh means it “is unlikely that a rent pressure zone would benefit many current private sector renters”, report finds

A REPORT by Edinburgh City Council has found that the Scottish Government’s Rent Pressure Zones have not been designed in a way that will work effectively, leading to the Council to request that the Scottish Government reviews the policy.

Friends of the Earth Scotland has urged the public to speak out against ‘business as usual’ and endorse environmental focus from the Scottish National Investment Bank

THE SCOTTISH NATIONAL INVESTMENT BANK (SNIB) should help deliver a “healthy, fair and fossil-free economy,” Friends of the Earth Scotland have argued, calling on the public to endorse such an environmental focus in the last remaining hours of a Scottish Government consultation.

The SNP's longest serving MP has expressed his reservations about a second vote on the EU.

IN RECENT weeks, the SNP has agreed that it would back moves towards a so called 'People's Vote' - a second vote on leaving the EU ¡ in a bid to head-off Brexit.

It would be fair to say that many independence supporters have expressed misgivings about such a move, given the political character of the forces pushing it.

Major WWF report finds that humanity has destroyed 60 per cent of the world’s wildlife populations since 1970

George Kerevan said the Scottish Government should meet ‘just pay claims’, even if it means breaking Treasury rules

LEADING SNP activists have urged independence supporters to avoid a rift with the trade union movement, after a week of industrial action and protests which has led to some in the SNP and wider independence movement to question the sincerity of workers’ demands.

Budget reaction from Richard Murphy, Craig Dalzell, Positive Money, Inclusion Scotland, Poverty Alliance, Scottish Unemployed Workers Network and the Child Poverty Action Group Scotland

THE Chancellor Philip Hammond has delivered his 2018 Budget to the House of Commons.

Teachers union general secretary argues Scottish Government underspend could settle pay claim “with cash to spare”

THE EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SCOTLAND (EIS) is confident of both a large turnout and an “overwhelming rejection” by its members of the latest pay offer from the Scottish Government and COSLA, ahead of the opening of a ballot on the matter tomorrow (30 October).