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Labour MP blasts 'coked-up yobbery' of far right protestors as she hits out at 'disaster' of asylum hotels
Immigration
EXCLUSIVE: Joani Reid said it is “hardly a surprise” that hundreds of unemployed young men roaming the streets would cause community tensions.
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New Jeremy Corbyn party poses 'more of a threat' to Greens than Scottish Labour
Anas Sarwar
EXCLUSIVE: Sir John Curtice said Your Party could take votes off Scotland's most left wing parties.
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Councillor ejected from meeting after claiming his garden waste permits petition had been mishandled
North Lanarkshire Council
Councillor Greg Lennon (Progressive Change North Lanarkshire, Gartcosh, Glenboig and Moodiesburn) had presented petition calling for reversal of decision to introduce charges for brown bin collections.
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Grieving family demand change as vital stroke treatment not available at night
Jackie Baillie
Anthony 'Tony' Bundy died aged 53 in June 2023 after it took 17 hours for him to receive thrombectomy surgery - a procedure not available in Scotland during the night.
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It is shocking that what time of day you suffer from stroke affects chances of survival
Health
Record View says one death is too many, but we must work hard to ensure that no one else has such a long wait for life-saving thrombectomy treatment.
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Pharmacist denies making blunder in Labour contest after referring to himself as party 'candidate'
Scottish Labour
EXCLUSIVE: A Labour source accused Mo Ameen of "arrogance" after campaign messages to members referred to him as Labour's "Glasgow Southside candidate".
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Anas Sarwar reveals the life-changing 'act of kindness' by a stranger in Lossiemouth
Anas Sarwar
EXCLUSIVE: The Scottish Labour leader says he would not have been born in Scotland were it not for a woman helping his grandfather in the 1940s.
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Jeremy Corbyn 'astonished' Nicola Sturgeon said he exuded ‘sneering superiority’
Nicola Sturgeon
"I’m astonished she should say that. I really am. Nicola, if you’re watching this: get over it. Just get over it."
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Anas Sarwar says Labour speaks for 'sensible majority' in Scotland after by-election victory over SNP
Scottish Labour
The Scottish Labour leader dismissed the threat posed by a new left-wing party under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn.
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NHS Scotland workforce at 'breaking point' as one fifth of consultant haematologists set to retire
NHS Scotland
EXCLUSIVE: Labour said frontline staff in hospitals were struggling due to "SNP-made chaos in our health service".
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MSP charged with possession of indecent images urged to stand down from Holyrood committee
Police Scotland
EXCLUSIVE: Colin Smyth, who was this week suspended by Labour, has been urged to stand aside from a key Holyrood role.
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Barlinnie jail could join Edinburgh Castle on heritage A-list when £1 billion replacement nick opens
HMP Barlinnie
Labour MSP Paul Sweeney told the Record the notorious prison has been "the site of significant Glaswegian social history" and parts of it must be preserved.
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Hundreds of NHS buildings over seventy years old as SNP slammed over "national scandal"
SNP
EXCLUSIVE: Some of the buildings used by the NHS are older than 100 years.
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Calls for more urgency over need for new medical centre in West Lothian village
West Lothian News
Built to serve just 4,500 it is now responsible for 16,000 patients
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Labour MSP Colin Smyth suspended by party and sitting as independent
Scottish Labour
Scottish Labour confirmed the long-standing MSP has been suspended.
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Scottish Labour leader hits out at Stirling candidate's ADHD diagnosis wait
Scottish Government
In an interview with the Observer, Anas Sarwar labelled the three-year wait for his Stirling candidate's family "heart-breaking" - and called for greater "transparency" from the Scottish Government on mental health waiting times.
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Reform UK announces latest councillor in Scotland is daughter of former Labour MP
Reform UK
Reform's newest recruit is the daughter of the late John MacDougall, an ally of Gordon Brown who served as Labour MP for Glenrothes until his death in 2008.
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North Lanarkshire Council SNP group slam rejection of amendment to safeguard local facilities and secure future of Airdrie's John Smith Pool
North Lanarkshire Council
The town centre leisure venue has been shut since late December for what was initially described as "technical issues" before being identified as "flooding to the pool plant room".
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Fife councillor jailed for sexual abuse of vulnerable teen girl
Courts
David Graham, 43, targeted the victim in 2023 over a six month period.
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The SNP has failed young people when it comes to apprenticeships
Labour Party
Writing in the Daily Record, Labour MP Gregor Poynton says Scottish Labour will make apprenticeships a national mission.
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Reform UK accused of 'writing Holyrood manifesto' from London over beefed up staff operation
Nigel Farage
EXCLUSIVE: Reform are hiring staff to work on policy for the Holyrood election, but they will be based in London.
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East Kilbride Labour leader rallies town to ‘win our future back’ ahead of Holyrood election 
East Kilbride
Joe Fagan said Scottish politics was not working for the Scottish people and called for new ideas to make East Kilbride ‘new’ again.
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SNP Government 'failing stroke patients' as average treatment waiting time over two hours
Jackie Baillie
Figures obtained by Scottish Labour revealed that patients are now waiting nearly ten minutes longer for blood clots to be removed than they were in 2018.
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Scottish Labour will reform how we order ferries to avoid another costly fiasco
Caledonian MacBrayne
Writing in his Daily Record column, Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar says there can never be another repeat of the SNP's ferry fiasco.
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