As the Planning Bill reaches Stage 3 and Holyrood prepares for three days of debate, Andy Wightman MSP warns of “an SNP-Tory stitch up”

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon confirmed that if medical testing was required, “that is exactly what will happen”

The Scottish Parliament has voted to allow local authorities to run their own bus services, a reform which Green MSP John Finnie says “will transform public transport provision across the country”

Following the publication of a review into his flagship education reform, Swinney announced that the Scottish National Standardised Assessments would continue with “important modifications”

Scottish Enterprise: “More of the same economic development will, at best, deliver more of the same economic outcomes. And inequalities will remain.”

Scottish Greens rebuke SNP MP Douglas Chapman’s call for oil and gas revenues to be utilised in financing transition to a zero carbon economy

The sex worker-led organisation Scot-Pep has reiterated calls for decriminalisation after the feminist activist Julie Bindel urged the Scottish Government to introduce new legislation to make the purchase of sex illegal

WfI: “We are frustrated… that there are not more alternatives to prison available for sheriffs to consider”

Reports that child refugees are still being held at Dungavel Immigration Removal Centre almost a decade after the Home Office announced an end to the policy have led to fresh calls for the devolution of asylum powers

Reporting by David Jamieson and Ben Wray