SNP faces defeat over minimum alcohol price

Opposition to vote against minimum-pricing legislation intended to tackle health problems and alcohol-fuelled violence

Taxes, airguns, drink-driving and a swipe at the SNP

Labour’s hopes of outflanking the SNP over independence rest on a White Paper that itself depends on a general election victory to stand a...

Nationalist agenda lags behind as minds turn to constitution debate

Case study: The estate agent - 'An opportunity for stimulus ... so long as taxes don’t go up’

Case study: The entrepreneur - ‘I’d like to see tax cuts but the less well-off shouldn’t suffer’

Teachers’ early retirement plan ‘a shambles’

Unions attack Fiona Hyslop over plan for £10 million fund to pension-off older teachers

White Paper hands tax-raising powers to Scotland

Scottish government handed power to vary income tax, set speed and drink-drive limits and regulate airguns in biggests shake-up since devolution

Mint tea 'as effective as aspirin' scientists find

Research showed the herb known as Brazilian mint reduced pain as much as a soluble form of the conventional painkiller.

Longer A&E waiting times as patient numbers rise

Patients waiting in A&E to see a doctor are waiting on average more than half-an-hour longer than ten years ago, despite NHS hitting its target

Banks given £62bn nearly collapsed

Royal Bank of Scotland and HBOS received secret bridging loans last year when facing far greater peril than first thought

Call for more courts to deal with rise in domestic abuse

Labour calls for specialist courts to deal with domestic violence cases as figures show annual rise of 8 per cent

Scottish voters turn against independence

Support for SNP and its core policy falls on eve of White Paper on independence

London ‘fringe’ festival to rival Edinburgh

Next year's event will run on the same dates as Edinburgh and poach London comedians who normally travel to Scotland

Trump’s ‘village idiot’ tirade over golf protester

In an astonishing outburst, Donald Trump has called Balmedie homeowner Michael Forbes a “village idiot” for refusing to sell him his...