News from the National Newspaper updated daily
- ANDY Burnham is expected to announce a ban on trade with Israeli settlements in the West Bank on Tuesday, according to reports
- New data shows 84% of Scots want to buy more Scottish food and drink as a September campaign highlights local produce
- THREE Holyrood committees have declined to work jointly with a UK Parliament committee on further scrutiny of party finances
- DOZENS OF Palestinian families in the occupied West Bank face the threat of forced displacement after more than 40 demolition orders were issued against homes and community structures
- A FAR-RIGHT group that has provided funding to vigilante groups in Scotland has been promoting swords, daggers and battle axes to its supporters, The National can reveal …
- A CAMPAIGN against a Perthshire estate “stopping walkers” from accessing four popular munros on its grounds that sparked a fierce right-to-roam row has reached a historic milestone …
- A WESTMINSTER group set up to promote Fairtrade has been urged to subject the organisation to greater scrutiny …
- Rockstar Games, the studio behind Grand Theft Auto, will appear before the Glasgow Employment Tribunal this week amid an ongoing legal battle …
- KING Charles has been slated for not meeting Jamaican officials to receive a petition over slavery reparations while he enjoys a break in Scotland.
- The Greens forgave the end of the Bute House Agreement but it's clear they won't forget as they go after Nicola Sturgeon supporters …
- LABOUR peer George Foulkes is lobbying Prime Minister Andy Burnham and Scottish Secretary Douglas Alexander to intervene following reports that the Scottish Government is set to expand its network of international offices
- A FIRE that tore through a tenement in Glasgow after false claims were spread online that it was being renovated to house migrants is now being treated as wilful by police …
- A MAN allegedly plotted to spray paint the word “Palestine” on the lawn at Boris Johnson’s wedding reception venue, a court has heard …
- A MAN has been arrested in connection with the alleged rape of a woman on a riverbank in West Lothian in the early hours of the morning …
- POLICE descended on a car meet-up involving more than 400 cars in Aberdeen on Saturday
- A GROUP of Scottish Palestine protesters has submitted a formal complaint to the Crown Office after a racial hate-crime aggravation was dropped from their charges by a court.
- THE property developer behind a tenement in Glasgow that was set on fire has hit out at the “false claims” that it was being renovated to house migrants …
- A HOME Office insider’s claims that just one in 100 asylum claims are genuine is an “exaggeration” that must have come from a “human lie detector”, according to a second Home Office insider …
- OFTEN in this newsletter I find myself picking fault with the mainstream media, but credit must be given to the Reform UK undercover documentary shown by Channel 4.
- A 31-year-old man has been charged over an alleged assault that endangered life during disorder following a protest at Glasgow Green. Police investigations remain ongoing …
