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The SNP Government has struck a budget deal with the Greens which will see free bus travel for under 18s introduced in Scotland.

Almost half of people with a food allergy would not always mention it to the person they are buying food from in a restaurant or café - with teenagers most likely to fear making a fuss or feeling too embarrassed to discuss it.

Thousands of flats across Scotland are likely to be hit by “zero valuations” as a result of fire-risk cladding on the building, MSPs have been told.

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Labour’s only Scottish MP has warned party leader Richard Leonard that he must “wipe the slate clean” and oppose a second independence referendum or face defeat in next year’s Holyrood elections.

The SNP should give Boris Johnson an Easter deadline to accept demands for a second Scottish independence referendum, or start preparing its own plans for a ballot, a former depute leadership candidate has said.

Nicola Sturgeon has dismissed questions over her leadership of the SNP, telling her internal critics that she will lead the party into the 2021 Scottish Parliament election and beyond.

The SNP should give Boris Johnson an Easter deadline to accept demands for a second Scottish independence referendum, or start preparing its own plans for a ballot, a former depute leadership candidate has said.

Some commentators have suggested the forthcoming Edinburgh Central SNP candidate selection process is a proxy contest about the future leadership of the SNP, but I am fully behind Nicola Sturgeon, writes contender Angus Robertson.