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Alex Cole-Hamilton raised the issue in parliament

Violence in schools: More than 44,000 incidents reported in a year

Monica Lennon in the Scottish Parliament

Exclusive High-profile Labour MSP Monica Lennon faces bullying claims

Meghan Gallacher, Conservative MSP for Central Scotland and Lothians West. Pic: Contributed

Education should not simply be about meeting expectations

Why embarrassment of SNP MSPs shows the decline of standards at Holyrood Euan McColm

Steven Bonnar crossed his fingers when taking his Commons oath

SNP should consider Westminster abstention 'if impasse isn't broken'

Malcolm Offord MSP, Scottish leader of Reform UK

Reform UK's Malcolm Offord diagnosed with prostate cancer

Firefighters in Scotland have warned of the ‘creaking’ service as gaps in staffing lead to soaring overtime bills and rising number of absences. PIC: Getty Images/iStockphoto

Firefighters: 'Everyone should be alarmed' at state of service

Scottish Labour finance spokesperson, Michael Marra

Marra likely to make Scots Labour leadership ballot after NUM backing

Anas Sarwar speaking on Matt Forde's Political Party at the Edinburgh Fringe

Sarwar says 'my interest is in government' as he defends joining Lords

Monica Lennon (Jane Barlow/PA)

Exclusive Unite set to back Monica Lennon for Scottish Labour leader

Nicola Sturgeon and John Swinney (PA)

John Swinney defends Holyrood campaign after Nicola Sturgeon attack

Highland Council's headquarters in Inverness

Rapist taxi driver gives up licence ahead of review

Katy Clark

Left-wing MSP is not standing in Scottish Labour leadership contest

Around half of first-class deliveries are not delivered within a day in the Highlands and islands.

Exclusive Just half first-class mail delivered in a day in Highlands and islands

Scottish Labour MSP Monica Lennon

Scottish Labour leader race 'reeks of misogyny and male entitlement'

Michael Marra, Monica Lennon, and Joe Fagan

Analysis Scottish Labour will be ungovernable after this leadership contest

Monica Lennon

I will end the factional infighting in Scottish Labour

Michael Marra, Monica Lennon, and Joe Fagan

Scots Labour leadership contender takes swipe at Sarwar joining Lords

Michael Marra, Monica Lennon, and Joe Fagan

Labour MPs and MSPs warned about 'male, pale and stale' leader contest

Neil Bibby (PA)

Key Anas Sarwar ally backs Joe Fagan for Scottish Labour leader

Monica Lennon announced last week she would run for the Scottish Labour leadership (Andrew Milligan/PA)

Exclusive Monica Lennon confirmed as MSP and 'has numbers for leadership race'

Katy Clark is considering running for Scottish Labour leader

Exclusive Left-wing MSP considering Scottish Labour leadership bid

Monica Lennon is expected to return to Holyrood following Anas Sarwar’s resignation.

Monica Lennon to give £50,000 golden goodbye to charity

Anas Sarwar

Scottish Labour suffering 'identity crisis' as Sarwar heads to Lords

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar

Sarwar to quit as Scots Labour leader to join Burnham government

James, who died in 2023, was in care for much of his short life. Questions remain about how he - and his mother - were treated by authorities.

Exclusive Mother's fight after getting only 90 minutes with son before he died

One of the streets inside the cordon in Coalsnaughton.

Exclusive Coalsnaughton: Families left 'in limbo' in hotels and Airbnbs

Rhythm by DJ Fergusson is one of the paintings in the University of Stirling art collection.

Art collection with Scottish Colourist work recognised by nation

Yi-pei Chou Turvey MSP

Exclusive Learning other cultures will tackle rise of far right, says new MSP

Morven-May MacCallum MSP

New MSP's journey from being 'bedbound' to being elected to Holyrood

Anas Sarwar unveiling Scottish Labour's manifesto in Edinburgh

Exclusive Sarwar stays for now but next Scottish Labour leader will be divisive

The Holyrood press pen

A pen for parliament journalists? The Holyrood farce turns tragi-comic

The SNP needs to learn a lot of lessons in how it approaches North Sea oil and gas.

Analysis Aberdeen South: SNP needs to do some soul-searching on oil and gas

Scottish Green Party MSP Q Manivannan at the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh

The friendly face of gender ideology is still misogyny Jenny Lindsay

David Green MSP

Exclusive SNP lost Highlands because they 'don't get rural Scotland' - new MSP

'Tunnels are part of Shetland's' future' - islands' new SNP MSP

Jacob Rees-Mogg

Tories and Reform should do deal in Aberdeen South, says Rees-Mogg

First Minister John Swinney celebrating the SNP's election victory.

Alex Cole-Hamilton: Pro-indy parties 'gamed the system' at election

SNP leader John Swinney has pledged to cap prices for many foods in supermarkets (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Exclusive Former senior SNP MSP says supermarket price cap 'won't work'

A gannet among vegetation on the cliffs

Islanders launch bid for summer guga hunt despite backlash

The house shared by Peter Murrell and Nicola Sturgeon was searched, with police erecting a blue forensics tent in their front garden.

How did Operation Branchform begin? And where it led

Nicola Sturgeon and Peter Murrell on their wedding day in 2010

The downfall of Scotland's most powerful political couple
Once at the helm of Scotland’s biggest political party, Mr Murrell pleading guilty closes a chapter on the country’s most powerful political couple.

A general view of MSPs in the Holyrood chamber

Is social class Holyrood's hidden inequality?

Gordon McKee (back row, second from left), Melanie Ward (back row, second from right) and Zubir Ahmed (from row, centre left) sat around Wes Streeting during his speech

Who are Streeting's allies? The Scots MPs who back ex-health secretary

First Minister John Swinney and Public Finance Minister Hannah Mary Goodlad

Who is Hannah Mary Goodlad, Swinney's new public finance minister?

Former Scottish Green co-leader Lorna Slater MSP, Q Manivannan MSP, and North East MSP Maggie Chapman.

Green candidate says she was blocked over visa status

A screenshot taken from a video of Irshad Ahmed's speech in 2024

Sarwar queries whether new MSP called for Israel’s 'crushing defeat’

Stephen Gethins MSP and Stephen Flynn MSP

Analysis Why the two Westminster by-elections are the SNP's to lose

Hannah Mary Goodlad MSP was sworn in using Shaetlan.

Analysis Parliament's diversity as 14 languages used to swear in new MSPs

Q Manivannan MSP

Trans MSP Q Manivannan escorted by security over safety concerns

Q Manivannan MSP

MSP on student visa aiming for new visa to allow them to stay in UK

Scottish Greens vow to support trans MSP with Visa renewal

Holly Bruce

Glasgow count is a muted affair - despite whoops of joy from Greens

The most northerly polling station in Scotland is over 400 miles away from the Scottish Parliament.

How votes at most northerly polling station will travel to get counted

Anas Sarwar

Anas Sarwar: 'It won't be long till Reform says I came off a boat'

Inside the Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch constituency

Exclusive Inside knife-edge rural constituency which could seal Swinney's fate

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Scotland has failed to meet its latest target for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, the latest official figures show. Picture: John Giles/PA Wire

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Pro-independence protesters with Scottish Saltire flags (top) march for Scottish independence. Picture: Andy Buchanan/AFP via Getty Images

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