For almost two decades, Orkney MSP Liam McArthur has been quietly focussed on addressing local concerns on the islands he ...

Assisted dying is a step closer to being legalised in Scotland following a landmark vote at Holyrood. Parliamentarians backed ...

John Swinney will face FMQs on Thursday, days after the Scottish Parliament voted in favour of taking a landmark first step ...

EXCLUSIVE: The Nationalists' are being tipped to win a crunch by-election next month despite some high profile endorsements ...

The Scottish Parliament has already turned down physician assisted suicide two times, but that has not stopped those for whom ...

Amid broken promises and mounting pressure, Scotland’s teachers are preparing for industrial action over the government’s failure to deliver ...

A BBC survey of GPs also found a majority were opposed, although it was not a representative sample. BBC News sent more than ...

George Adam – whose wife Stacey lives with secondary progressive multiple sclerosis – delivered an emotional speech during ...

A group of MSPs have demanded a national action plan to tackle the housing emergency one year on from the Scottish Government making the ...

Sir Keir Starmer has signalled he will continue to support the assisted dying bill as it returns to the House of Commons this ...

GPs have called for an opt in system for doctors rather than medics having to actively object to participate in assisted ...

Research by the BBC also suggests that a plurality of GPs may be against the proposals. Over 1,000 GPs responded to a BBC ...