Scottish Labour are suffering from a cash and staffing crisis so severe they would not have been able to mount an effective general election campaign last month.

Scotland's Parliament and government have been hoodwinked into giving farmers an extra £40 million of taxpayers' money this year, despite advice from officials that it would be "gross over-compensation".

Alex Salmond has hit back at claims the team behind Scotland's Commonwealth Games bid are wasting public money by taking a delegation of 46 to Sri Lanka ahead of Friday's crucial vote.

A Scottish Labour MP who ran up the highest travel bill of any Westminster politician has had a breakdown of her expenses published after a two-year battle for disclosure.

 A bus tycoon who helped bankroll the SNP's election campaign is to ask the Nationalist government for a £3million subsidy for his company.