Good morning – here are the top 10 news stories in Scotland this morning:
Threat to SNP policy to scrap nuclear weapons (The Herald)
Scottish retailing hit by 8.2% decrease in shoppers (The Scotsman)
MSP launches Living Wage Bill to help low-paid contract workers (BBC Scotland)
Revealed: £36million bill to provide methadone to drug users (Daily Record)
Top businessmen put gardens cash on table (Press & Journal)
Scottish government faces wall of silence from church over gay marriage (Daily Telegraph)
Scottish jobs market ‘losing momentum’ (BBC Scotland)
Number of Scots living with diabetes rises to nearly 250,000 (STV)
‘Promises broken’ as Scottish defence jobs fall to new low (The Scotsman)
‘Life is harder than ever’ for young Scots (The Herald)
The Scottish Parliament is in its summer recess.
Alan Robertson
A graduate in Politics and Journalism from the University of Strathclyde, Alan joined the Holyrood team as a reporter in May 2012 fresh from finishing his studies. Alan spent four years in student media, the last of which helping to launch the award-winning Glasgow Journal as Managing Editor, and continues to work part-time as a sub-editor in sport for the Sunday...