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NEW: A Holyrood committee has unanimously agreed to progress a proposed law banning protests outside of abortion clinics in Scotland ... Show more
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Scotland’s alcohol deaths worst in UK as rates hit record high: Scotland remains the worst performing nation as alcohol-specific deaths increased across the UK.
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Scotland’s alcohol deaths worst in UK as rates hit record high
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Minimum price of alcohol to rise by 30% as MSPs vote to increase cost: The price per unit of alcohol will rise to 65p, up from 50p.
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Minimum price of alcohol to rise by 30% as MSPs vote to increase cost
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Scotland's under-18s gender clinic pauses puberty blockers: It follows a landmark review of gender services in England which warned of a lack of research.
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Scotland's under-18s gender clinic pauses puberty blockers
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Why won’t Humza close Scotland’s tartan Tavistock?: Another day, another Holyrood mess. This time, it’s hapless Humza Yousaf being criticised for his slow ...
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Why won’t Humza close Scotland’s tartan Tavistock?
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Smoking ban: From world-leading Scottish reform to bid for smoke-free generation: In 2006, Scotland banned smoking in indoor public spaces - now the UK is poised ...
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Quick Glance: UK Lawmakers Support Groundbreaking 'Smoke-Free Generation' Bill
  • The British government's plan for a landmark smoking ban to prevent young people from ever smoking passed its first hurdle in Parliament despite opposition from within Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's Conservative Party.

  • The bill, announced by Sunak, would make it illegal to sell tobacco products to anyone born after January 1, 2009, creating one of the toughest anti-smoking measures in the world to establish the 'first smoke-free generation' in modern Britain.

  • The bill also includes measures to crack down on youth vaping, such as banning the sale of cheap disposable vapes and restricting their flavors to prevent children from becoming addicted to nicotine.

  • The number of people who smoke in the U.K. has declined by two-thirds since the 1970s, but approximately 6.4 million people in the country still smoke, accounting for about 13% of the population. Smoking remains the number one preventable cause of death, disability, and poor health.
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Why did the Sandyford clinic delay pausing puberty blockers?: For now, it’s important that no more children are harmed by an experimental treatment that in many ...
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Why did the Sandyford clinic delay pausing puberty blockers?
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Centuries-Old Human Remains Found That Reveal Violent Past of Border Region: The bones show evidence of multiple traumatic injuries—and some even appear to have ...
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Centuries-Old Human Remains Found That Reveal Violent Past of Border ...
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Number of GP practices drops in 12 out of 14 health boards in Scotland, new figures show
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Number of GP practices drops in 12 out of 14 health boards in Scotland ...
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GMB Union urge Glasgow City Council to declare a rat crisis in city amid sightings of ‘rodents size of cats’
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GMB Union urge Glasgow City Council to declare a rat crisis in city amid ...
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Labour pledge £134m for Scottish NHS to cut waiting lists: A Labour government would give an extra £134million to the NHS in Scotland through cracking down on ...
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Labour pledge £134m for Scottish NHS to cut waiting lists
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An autistic woman says she was admitted to a psychiatric ward five times after being misdiagnosed as bipolar for ten years. Ailsa Lindsay, from Glasgow ... Show more   #autism   #misdiagnosed   #stv   #stvnews   #scotland   #scottishnews
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Why does petrol vary so much in price? is it profiteering?: I WAS in the Highlands last week enjoying a short break north of Inverness, a former home town of ...
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Why does petrol vary so much in price? is it profiteering?
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Holyrood committee backs 'necessary' abortion buffer zones bill at stage one: Health, Social Care and Sport Committee unanimously agrees to general principles of ...
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Holyrood committee backs 'necessary' abortion buffer zones bill at stage ...
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NHS Scotland spends nearly £30m on locum psychiatrists in a year: EXCLUSIVE: Scotland's 14 health boards splashed out £29,606,336.61 on locum psychiatrists ...
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NHS Scotland spends nearly £30m on locum psychiatrists in a year
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Endometriosis: Scottish health minister urged to help women with ‘cruel illness’ which ruins lives
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Endometriosis: Scottish health minister urged to help women with ‘cruel ...
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Scottish Government faces questions over use of puberty blockers: Scottish Conservative deputy leader Meghan Gallacher has written to the chief executive of NHS ...
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Scottish Government faces questions over use of puberty blockers
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Nathan Patterson hands Scotland another major Euro 2024 injury sweat as Everton defender forced off
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Nathan Patterson hands Scotland another major Euro 2024 injury sweat as ...
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Decay at the core of dentistry as Labour leader slams 'broken, two-tier' system: Record View says generations of improvement is now in jeopardy with patients ...
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Decay at the core of dentistry as Labour leader slams 'broken ...
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ScotGov suicide prevention bid hit by £80m mental health spend cut: Ministers have been warned a bid to curb Scotland's rising suicide death rate is doomed to ...
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ScotGov suicide prevention bid hit by £80m mental health spend cut
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Following Cass Report, Scottish Government must conduct urgent review of child gender identity services – Scotsman comment
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Following Cass Report, Scottish Government must conduct urgent review of ...
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Cass Review, transgender clinics, and a 'toxic' debate: The publication a few days ago of the Cass Review was anomaly in an otherwise toxic and polarised debate ...
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Cass Review, transgender clinics, and a 'toxic' debate
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A public consultation over the planned closure of two GP surgeries in Moray was a “mere tickbox exercise”, according to campaigners ... Show more   #news   #stvnews   #nhs   #health   #GPPractice
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A Highland hospital is to have its upgrade completed after campaigners urged the government to lift a capital spending freeze ... Show more   #news   #stvnews   #nhs   #building   #construction
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Number of ‘nuclear site events’ at Clyde base: Of the total 180 events reported across both locations and years, all were managed safely without any significant ...
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Number of ‘nuclear site events’ at Clyde base
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Thug who attacked Scottish Premiership player jailed after years on run: Livingston FC keeper - Shamal George - told a court "I have never in my life felt ...
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Thug who attacked Scottish Premiership player jailed after years on run
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Addictive Eaters: What's it like to be obsessed with food?: There was a time where Katie* used to eat until she passed out. Yet to the outside world she appeared ...
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Addictive Eaters: What's it like to be obsessed with food?
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Scottish retail sales grow for first time since June: Sales of home accessories, health and beauty, home textiles, and toys were boosted by the early Easter ...
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Scottish retail sales grow for first time since June
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Scots family appeal over flawed stroke checks that cost 100s of lives: A family who lost a loved one to a stroke has made a personal plea to the Scottish ...
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Scots family appeal over flawed stroke checks that cost 100s of lives
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Tories demand NHS answers over puberty blockers as SNP under pressure over Cass review
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Tories demand NHS answers over puberty blockers as SNP under pressure over ...
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Leniency for Corona violations? NRW Ministry of Health rejects proposal: Should violations of Corona rules no longer be punished? The NRW Ministry of Health ...
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Leniency for Corona violations? NRW Ministry of Health rejects proposal
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Euan McColm: Adherence to trans ideology trumps good law making for a troubling number of MSPs
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Euan McColm: Adherence to trans ideology trumps good law making for a ...
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Scottish Government to consider ‘weak evidence’ for gender medicine: Major report finds children and young people are being let down in England by a lack of ...
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Scottish Government to consider ‘weak evidence’ for gender medicine
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Denmark ejects mink breeders from compensation committees: Mink fur breeders in Denmark will no longer influence the amount paid out in compensation to fellow ...
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Denmark ejects mink breeders from compensation committees
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Poet Jackie Kay: ‘I could have been brought up by Tories!’: The writer on being adopted as a baby by Scottish communists, facing racism in suburban Glasgow ...
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Poet Jackie Kay: ‘I could have been brought up by Tories!’
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'It was a no-brainer': campaigners win fight to complete Grantown health centre project
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'It was a no-brainer': campaigners win fight to complete ...
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NHS Scotland: Thousands of operations cancelled at the last minute due to hospital capacity and staffing issues
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NHS Scotland: Thousands of operations cancelled at the last minute due to ...
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Scots baby killer who murdered four-month-old daughter battered behind bars : Brute Craig Jamieson, who was caged for battering his four-month-old daughter to ...
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Scots baby killer who murdered four-month-old daughter battered behind ...
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Coming to terms with the pandemic: SPD politician Michael Müller believes corona amnesty is possible
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Coming to terms with the pandemic: SPD politician Michael Müller believes ...
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The Scottish Police Federation said it is taking an extra 40 officers a day to deal with the response to the new hate crime laws, with up to 8 ... Show more   #politics   #scotland   #news   #police
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Nicola Sturgeon ‘veering away’ from supporting assisted dying Bill: Liam McArthur’s Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill was published last ...
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Nicola Sturgeon ‘veering away’ from supporting assisted dying Bill
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Humza Yousaf has said he is “very proud” of the controversial Hate Crime Act, saying it gives people “protection from a rising tide of hatred” ... Show more   #stvnews   #scotland   #HumzaYousaf   #HateCrime   #PoliceScotland
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Lorna Slater and Patrick Harvie back Scotland's assisted dying Bill: Scottish Greens co-convenor Lorna Slater has said she will back proposed legislation to ...
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Lorna Slater and Patrick Harvie back Scotland's assisted dying Bill
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Glasgow airline Loganair criticises Brexit red-tape costs: Loganair almost doubled its profit and posted record turnover last year, but it also faced challenges ...
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Glasgow airline Loganair criticises Brexit red-tape costs
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Could assisted dying be coming to Scotland?: MSPs will get the chance to make Scotland the first part of the UK to let people legally end their lives.
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Could assisted dying be coming to Scotland?
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Laings puts sparkle into high street with £20m store project: Family-owned company pledges its commitment to the traditional retail model with plans that include ...
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Laings puts sparkle into high street with £20m store project
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NEW: First Minister Humza Yousaf has said the decision by Inverclyde Council to U-turn on its council tax increase was 'embarrassing' The comment came as he ... Show more
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Edinburgh Castle gun told to fire quieter amid health and safety row: The Defence Secretary has now intervened to keep the gun firing.
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Edinburgh Castle gun told to fire quieter amid health and safety row
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Humza Yousaf has unveiled an additional £30m to help Scots improve their mental health. The Communities Mental Health and Wellbeing Fund for adults ... Show more   #stvnews   #scotland   #humzayousaf   #mentalhealth
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Eating disorder study: Calories on menus too 'triggering': Eating disorder campaigners have urged the Scottish Government against "dangerous" mandatory ...
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Eating disorder study: Calories on menus too 'triggering'
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Assisted dying ‘cannot come soon enough’ for terminally ill, says MSP behind Bill
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Assisted dying ‘cannot come soon enough’ for terminally ill ...
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Tory MSP claims he was ‘threatened’ by SNP minister during row in Holyrood: Stephen Kerr said he was told he was going to ‘fall from a very high place’
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Tory MSP claims he was ‘threatened’ by SNP minister during row in Holyrood
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Drug driver left brother seriously injured after flipping car on roof in Glasgow: Mark Bexley, 26, smashed his car into a lamp post while under the influence of ...
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Drug driver left brother seriously injured after flipping car on roof in ...
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Jason Leitch, Scotland’s national clinical director who saw the nation through the Covid pandemic, has announced he is stepping down from the role. news.stv.tv/scotland/jason-leitch-to-step-down-as-scotlands-national-clinical-director
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'It's wreaking havoc': The five Highland health projects on the £175 million NHS waiting list
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'It's wreaking havoc': The five Highland health projects on ...
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Calorie labelling presents 'massive challenge' for Scots hospitality: One of Scotland’s largest independent restaurant groups has warned that implementing ...
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Calorie labelling presents 'massive challenge' for Scots hospitality
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Why Humza Yousaf is a man without a 'credible plan for Scotland's economy or drug deaths crisis - Brian Monteith
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Why Humza Yousaf is a man without a 'credible plan for Scotland's economy ...
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EXCLUSIVE: The SNP have cause to raise concerns with the Electoral Commission over the impact of a “fascist” fringe party on Scottish elections ... Show more
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Majority of voters urge Government to deliver above inflation pay rise for nurses
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Majority of voters urge Government to deliver above inflation pay rise for ...
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Drunk Scots footballer jailed after killing Rangers fan dad in horror crash: Craig Forbes, 23, struck David Horn's vehicle on the A78 in Inverclyde on ...
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Drunk Scots footballer jailed after killing Rangers fan dad in horror ...
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Scots top youngest to die list as country's health gets worse, experts warn: Paul Johnston, chief executive of Public Health Scotland, made the claims in an ...
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Scots top youngest to die list as country's health gets worse ...
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Scotland’s new Hate Crime Act is fraught with danger: ‘Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words… make me feel hated just for being me… make me scared to ...
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Scotland’s new Hate Crime Act is fraught with danger
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Victims with ‘catastrophic’ injuries after ship toppled in Edinburgh dock ‘waiting for answers’
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Victims with ‘catastrophic’ injuries after ship toppled in Edinburgh dock ...
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Warning that health and social care cuts in Edinburgh will impact the most vulnerable
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Warning that health and social care cuts in Edinburgh will impact the most ...
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Man handed hospital order after killing widower ‘to free himself from curse’: James O’ Connor, from Dundee, previously pleaded guilty to manslaughter by ...
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Man handed hospital order after killing widower ‘to free himself from ...
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'State of emergency' as Glasgow's school cuts begin: Parents and teachers are warning that cuts to staffing levels put learning and safety at risk and will lead ...
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'State of emergency' as Glasgow's school cuts begin
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Yousaf under fire over ‘calamitous state’ of NHS as Labour sets out reforms: Dame Jackie Baillie said the First Minister continues to ‘desperately’ blame the ...
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Yousaf under fire over ‘calamitous state’ of NHS as Labour sets out ...
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Why poverty is one of the biggest challenges for NHS: Tackling poverty "must be as much of a priority as bringing down waiting lists" when it comes to ...
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Why poverty is one of the biggest challenges for NHS
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Man charged in connection with attempted murder in Coul, Fort William: A man was left in hospital after being found with serious injuries in a property in Fort ...
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Man charged in connection with attempted murder in Coul, Fort William
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Scottish Government will consent to UK-wide vaping curbs: Public health minister Jenni Minto confirmed the move on Tuesday.
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Scottish Government will consent to UK-wide vaping curbs
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Campaign to reopen two Moray GP practices taken to parliament: Local MSP Douglas Ross told parliament around 44% of over 50s in Moray now have to wait a week or ...
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Campaign to reopen two Moray GP practices taken to parliament