The UK Government’s economic policies are “likely” to have caused a “great many more deaths” than the Covid-19 pandemic, an academic has claimed. Researchers said their “not only shocking but
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John Swinney has rejected an accusation of a “pattern of secrecy” within the Scottish Government over resignations from the independent public inquiry into the handling of the Covid pandemic. The
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Sporting bodies are backing a charity campaign to empower parents to keep their children safe from abuse when playing sport. The week-long National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
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Urgent, co-ordinated action is required across all levels of Government in the UK in order to tackle Scotland’s health inequalities, a Holyrood inquiry has found. The Scottish Parliament’s Health, Social
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Scots living with severe, enduring and complex mental illnesses are withdrawing from relationships, friendships, work and healthcare due to stigma and discrimination, new research has shown. The Scottish Mental Illness
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A businessman living with incurable cancer is working on a new book which he plans to give free to others with the disease. Kevin Donaghy, from the Scottish borders, is
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Prosecutors are “determined” to increase the confidence that victims have in the criminal justice system, Scotland’s Lord Advocate said after the launch of a pilot scheme to improve the experience
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A man who was convicted of raping children and women over the course of two decades has been jailed for 12 years. Joseph Lowther,42, was sentenced on Friday at the
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The number of domestic abuse related charges reported to prosecutors fell slightly last year, though they were at their second highest level in six years, figures show. Crown Office and
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A cannabis-based medicine for multiple sclerosis patients has been accepted for use on the NHS in Scotland. Drugs for cancer patients and adult kidney transplant patients are also among those
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