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The SNP government is failing patients and staff feel worn out and demoralised

The SNP government is failing patients and staff feel worn out and demoralised

It is encouraging that John Swinney has taken charge of the way his government runs the health service. It also good that he is already chairing...

14.01.2025 5

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UK’s only safer drug consumption facility opening in Scotland is win for society

UK’s only safer drug consumption facility opening in Scotland is win for society

The UK’s first and only safer drug consumption facility opens on Monday. First Minister John Swinney has greeted the facility, housed near The...

12.01.2025 50

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Brutal cost of living draining family finances after 14 years of Tory rule

Brutal cost of living draining family finances after 14 years of Tory rule

One of the toxic legacies of 14 years of Tory rule is a brutal cost of living crisis draining family finances. Inflation hammered incomes and...

03.01.2025 3

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Scotland's housing crisis highlighted by single mum left homeless over Christmas

Scotland's housing crisis highlighted by single mum left homeless over Christmas

Scotland's housing crisis has been brought into sharp relief by the story of one single mum left homeless over the festive period. Our story...

02.01.2025 2

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New Year's Honours List: Time to Recognise Those Who Have Made the Country Proud

New Year's Honours List: Time to Recognise Those Who Have Made the Country Proud

The New Year’s Honours List should be a time to recognise the heroes who have done the country proud. But in previous years the honours system...

01.01.2025 3

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Glasgow rat infestation problem must be brought under control amid alarming stats

Glasgow's rat infestation problem is not unique. But the scale of the crisis in Scotland’s largest city is deeply alarming. Figures we...

29.12.2024 6

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Scottish Government must get a grip of long NHS waiting lists

Long waiting times seem to be the norm across the NHS in Scotland. The Scottish Government has often pointed to funding problems and 14 years of...

27.12.2024 1

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Epidemic of skipping school can't continue and more must be done to combat truancy

More than 220,000 Scottish schoolchildren are now missing classes on a regular basis. This epidemic of truancy is no doubt due to a change in...

12.12.2024 5

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Covid exposed horrible injustice of broken care system

Covid exposed the horrible injustices in our broken care home system. Staff who go beyond the call of duty are on low wages and receive different...

15.11.2024 1

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Scotland's drugs deaths leaving 600 kids without parents must be a wake-up call

There are far too many victims of Scotland’s drug death crisis. But it is not only those who lose their lives to addiction we need to consider....

09.10.2024 2

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All governments must work together to stop the war in the Middle East and end the anguish

On October 7 last year, Hamas terrorists killed 1200 people and took 251 hostages in a series of ­sickening attacks on Israel. Young people at a...

08.10.2024 1

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Greedy Tories have no shame and Keir Starmer must also do better

We've always known the Tory party is an institution driven by greed and a lust for power. During its disastrous 17 years in power it gave the...

02.10.2024 2

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SNP must fix broken care system with new reforms after Covid pandemic

The Covid pandemic made it clear that standards across Scotland’s care industry were patchy at best and downright dangerous at worst. The...

01.10.2024 9

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King Charles must call for climate action or face spiralling into irrelevancy

The new King faces a stiff challenge to make the monarchy relevant to the everyday lives of Scots. The institution remains popular but this...

11.09.2024 2

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Scottish Government must make children's safety a priority in violence epidemic

It was welcome to see John Swinney sit down with youth violence victim Kaylynn Donald and her mum Vicky in Bute House this week. For years, there...

30.08.2024 2

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Keir Starmer has right idea to mend bridges with European neighbours post-Brexit

Brexit remains a major annoyance for many in Scotland – where we voted overwhelmingly to remain but had our EU citizenship stripped from us. So it...

29.08.2024 10

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Super-wealthy firms earning huge profits must pay share of taxes

The Tories have left our country in a mess. They imposed more than a decade of austerity which has left our public services on their knees. They...

28.08.2024 5

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More needs to be done to support ambulance workers

The pressures Scottish ambulance workers experience on a daily basis are laid bare in today’s Daily Record. More than half of all paramedics and...

12.08.2024 2

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Losing Scottish-trained nurses to hospitals south of the border is insanity

It is a tragedy that talented new nurses cannot find jobs in Scotland and are told to look elsewhere. For these nurses who have studied, often at...

06.08.2024 3

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Tommy Robinson's bigoted race-baiting event in Glasgow must be shunned

Tommy Robinson’s hateful brand of politics is not welcome in Scotland. The far-right extremist, who has multiple convictions for a variety of...

02.08.2024 2

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Profit at pumps is greed as drivers aren't reaping benefits of oil prices

IT’S staggering that motorists last year spent £1.6billion more on fuel than they should have. By sneakily raising their margins, petrol firms are...

27.07.2024 2

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Scotland's ban on disposable vapes is a much-needed intervention

Scotland and the UK’s incoming ban on disposable vapes in April 2025 is a much-needed intervention both for the sake of our children’s health and...

25.07.2024 3

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UK and Europeans must keep backing Ukraine and hope United States does too

Donald Trump accepted the Republican presidential nomination in front of a cheering crowd in Milwaukee. During a chilling acceptance speech, he...

20.07.2024 4

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Scottish and UK governments must learn from mistakes of Covid pandemic shambles

The contents of Baroness Hallett's report into the UK Covid Inquiry are damning. The UK and Scottish governments’ first responsibility is to...

19.07.2024 2

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Sir Keir Starmer must take steps to help out families as part of new Labour rule

The King's Speech was a positive first step by Keir Starmer. The Record welcomes the extension of workers’ rights, which will give employees...

18.07.2024 3

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Anti-vaccine movement is a threat to kids across Scotland

The damaging effects of social media conspiracy theorists are coming home to roost with increased numbers of childhood diseases returning with a...

17.07.2024 2

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Whooping cough can have lasting issues - it's essential parents vaccinate children

WHOOPING cough is a potentially fatal disease so the figures showing an exponential rise in cases are a real cause for concern. In 2022 there were...

16.07.2024 2

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Biden has been a success but his day has finally come

Joe Biden will go down in history as one of the most important US presidents since World War II. The veteran Democrat did the world a favour by...

13.07.2024 1

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