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First Minister Nicola Sturgeon at St Andrew’s House 2 March 2020 PHOTO ©2020 The Edinburgh Reporter

Nicola Sturgeon announces her retirement from politics at the 2026 election

Former First Minister – and the first woman to hold the office – Nicola Sturgeon ...

By Phyllis Stephen, The Edinburgh Reporter

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Significant challenges ahead for local services in Orkney

COSLA, the organisation which represents Scotland’s local authorities, has welcomed the Draft Scottish Budget published on ...
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Creating a Citizens Agenda: the issues people care most about

This year we took ran a Citizens Agenda project to provide citizen-centred reporting that better ...

By The Scottish Beacon

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