Nicola Sturgeon

Crime writer Ian Rankin backs Labour's man in Glenrothes by-election

Nov 5 2008 By Dave King BEST-SELLING crime writer Ian Rankin yesterday gave his backing to Labour in the Glenrothes by-election. The Rebus author said candidate Lindsay Roy would be an "exceptional choice" as an MP. Rankin, who...

Pressure on MSPs as English get all-clear on drug top-ups

Published Date: 05 November 2008 THE Scottish Government was last night urged to speed up its review of "top-up payments" after Westminster said English patients are to be allowed to pay privately for drugs and still keep their...

Hospital parking charges increase

Ninewells is one of the few where charges will not be scrapped A patients group has criticised the operators of the car parks at Ninewells for increasing charges as fees at other hospitals are due to be scrapped. From 1...

McRae is honoured in hall of fame

Motor racing legend Colin McRae has been inducted into the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame. Former World Rally champion McRae, who died in a helicopter crash alongside his young son last September, is one of four new inductees....

Post Office cuts would hurt Fife

SNP Candidate for the Glenrothes by-election Cllr Peter Grant and Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon today visited a Glenrothes post office that could face closure if, as reported this weekend, the Labour government has...

Sturgeon blow to assisted suicide law

Published Date: 03 November 2008 NICOLA Sturgeon, the health secretary, said yesterday she was "not persuaded" that assisted suicide legal should be made legal, after independent MSP Margo MacDonald said she hoped to bring...

Services fear over £500m NHS cuts

Published Date: 02 November 2008 By Tom Peterkin Scottish Political Editor MORE than £500m will be slashed from the NHS budget over the next three years, forcing cuts in staff and frontline services such as accident and...

Westfield: another shopping centre - should governments say no?

Shopping malls, don't you hate them? Shopping malls, don't you love them? Like Private Eye's Glenda Slagg, my own feelings are highly ambiguous and I can't imagine they are unique: awful, but useful, soulless, but warm and dry,...

Rethink call on organ donor move

Sally Molineux overturned her late husband's wish to be an organ donor A Scottish nurse who overruled her dying husband's organ donation wishes has said the government should think twice before changing the law. A UK-wide...

Glenrothes byelection: Recession and rising fuel bills test Brown's bounce

Late October sunshine struggles to warm the chunky peninsula north of Edinburgh known as the Kingdom of Fife, where Pictish warriors once ruled and Gordon Brown grew up. Roads and railway platforms are gritted as biting...