A YEAR to the day since he first complained to the broadcasting watchdog about a BBC Radio 4 interview with former Scottish Tory leader Baroness Ruth Davidson, a reader of The National is still awaiting an answer from Ofcom.
ONE of Scotland’s busiest food banks is running a crowdfunder as fuel, energy and food prices go through the roof in what its boss describes as “a year of catastrophe”.
A VULNERABLE Pakistani woman who waited for more than four years for a Home Office ruling on her application for asylum in Scotland has finally been granted leave to remain as a refugee after we highlighted her plight.
A MARINE protection charity has criticised the Scottish Government over what it described as its partial “U-turn” on the seasonal closure of part of the Clyde fishing grounds.
THE Nationality and Border Bill is one of the most contentious pieces of legislation ever dreamt up by this Tory government, attracting wide-ranging criticism – not solely from those charities who work with refugees and asylum seekers – but from politicians of all colours, academics, nurses’ and doctors’ leaders, and the United Nations’ refugee agency UNHCR.
THE closure of the Clyde fisheries “cod box” and subsequent alterations to the original scope of the plan have angered many in Scotland’s fishing community and could see more of them fund their own research into stock levels.
NICOLA Sturgeon is being urged to work with other devolved leaders to tackle what campaigners have described as “pandemic profiteering” to help poorer countries gain access to Covid-19 vaccine technology.
DECLINES in Covid-19 rates across the UK have masked a “rapid and steep” rise in cases amongst children, according to experts, who say early warnings that a lack of protections for them would lead to a wave of infections from the delta variant were not heeded.
TWO Scottish companies are continuing the country’s world-renowned expertise in science with an initiative to speed up the development of vaccines, medicines and key ingredients for reducing antibiotic resistance.
WE need to move on from a perpetual crisis in racial justice to a turning point that could herald a change to deep-seated systems of racism, according to a Scots academic.
