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Proposed changes to strengthen the public’s right to information and increase transparency among public authorities are set to be scrutinised in Holyrood. The Scottish Parliament’s Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments (SPPA) Committee has launched a call for views on the Scottis

A public consultation on a proposed safe drug consumption room in Edinburgh has been approved, with the city’s health board chair insisting the facility would save lives. The Edinburgh Integration Joint Board (EIJB) signed off the move on Monday. Officers will prepare the consultation for earl

The latest UK House Price Index figures show that the average price of a property in Scotland rose to £192,000 in July 2025, marking a 3.3 per cent increase compared with the same month last year.

The King's and Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer (KLTR), in partnership with National Museums Scotland, hosted Scotland’s first Treasure Trove Annual Event on Friday at the National Museum of Scotland, marking the launch of the Treasure Trove Scotland Annual Report for 2024/25. The event brought t

The English legal press had their knives out for the Law Society of Scotland this past week. This was on the back of its announcement of a deferral of at least a further two years (to add to the existing 15 years since the introduction of the Legal Services (Scotland) Act 2010) in bringing about alt

Patience and Buchan and Thorntons, have announced a merger that will strengthen legal services in Aberdeen and beyond. Patience and Buchan’s two partners, Lorna Buchan and Ashley Simpson, and four employees will transfer to the merged firm, which will be known as Thorntons, on 1 October.

Pope Leo XIV has said he vetoed a proposal for the creation of an AI-powered virtual Pope because of its impact on "human dignity". The bizarre idea has been brought to light in a new biography by journalist Elise Ann Allen, which is out now in Spanish and to be published in English next year.

Catriona Watt, a partner at Anderson Strathern and co-leader of the firm’s inquiries unit, has been named Lawyer of the Year at this year’s Scottish Legal Awards. She picked up the title at the ceremony in Glasgow last Thursday.

Scotland’s crumbling police stations need more than £230 million spent on them, according to “staggering” figures obtained by the Scottish Conservatives. A freedom of information response reveals that the maintenance backlog costs for the police estate across the country now

Hundreds of people held at America's Alligator Alcatraz immigration processing centre west of Miami, Florida, appear to have disappeared from the system, according to immigrant advocacy groups. Detainees have vanished from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) online database, with families

An uninsured driver who was over the legal alcohol limit has been ordered to be detained for 32 months in a Young Offenders institution after causing a high-speed crash which resulted in an aspiring footballer having to undergo a double leg amputation.  Arran Paterson, 19, was driving an Audi A

A Stirling sheriff has granted decree of divorce on the ground of irretrievable breakdown between a couple who occupied a rented council property after a physical altercation in January 2024 but refused to allow a transfer of the tenancy from the defender to the pursuer after finding her case to be