The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
If Alex Salmond is not getting advice on how to repair Scotland's battered economy at meetings of the Financial Services Advisory Board then where is he getting it asks Alan Cochrane.
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 23 hours ago
FIRST Minister Alex Salmond has hit out at "secret plans" to axe a vital rail service between Scotland and London.
Scots and Independent (Free subscription) | yesterday
Work took me to Huntly on Monday, in the aftermath of the floods which saw around 100 people evacuated from their homes. Almost a month's rainfall in 24 hours, allied to ground already saturated from previous rainfall, saw the River Deveron rise dramatically overnight as water ran straight off the hills. As the river rose, the burn which flows through The Meadows estate quickly backed up and burst...
The Jaggy Thistle- Scotland the barbed (Free subscription) | yesterday
the ultra-violet light did its work, the creature the world knew as Alex Salmond revealed its true form..."
Times Online (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Gordon Brown joined the Glasgow North East by-election campaign yesterday and launched a fierce attack on Alex Salmond’s SNP government, claiming that the Nationalists had failed the city.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Alex Salmond and key SNP figures admit nationalists have large gap to close to win seat on Thursday Gordon Brown today accused Alex Salmond's government of "letting down" the people of Glasgow as he sought to bolster Labour's campaign to hold one of the party's safest and longest-held seats. Labour are clear favourites to win the contest for Glasgow North East on Thursday, in what is expected...
Three Thousand Versts of Loneliness (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The report which Sir Christopher Kelly’s Committee on Standards in Public Life published on MPs’ expenses and allowances on Wednesday, as yet, only comprises recommendations. Nick Robinson, on his blog , has set out the likely process for its implementation, during which MPs might, he contends, attempt to ‘smooth off the sharpest edges’ of the proposed reforms. The committee...
Betsan Powys' blog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
On St Andrew's Day I wonder how tempted Alex Salmond will be to raise some questions -perhaps answer a few - about his future plans for an independent Scotland? How soon after that would the UK Government be obliged to offer their own answers to come questions raised by the Calman Commission earlier this year. Will they take the same opportunity to respond to the Holtham Commission? It's questions,...
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
FIRST Minister Alex Salmond has given his backing for a Scots-owned bank for the first time since The Scotsman revealed that a consortium of businessmen hoped to buy TSB from
The Daily Record (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
LABOUR leader Iain Gray yesterday accused Alex Salmond of being "posted missing" from key talks on Scotland's troubled banking industry.
SUBROSA (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
More or less a financial FMQs today with Iain Gray berating the First Minister for not attending a meeting of the Financial Services Advisory Board since February. Mr Salmond insisted he was in regular touch with the Board and appeared to shrug off the criticism. Surely it would have been better (for the labour candidate in the forthcoming Glasgow NE by-election) if Iain Gray had questioned the FM...
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
SCOTLAND would gain if a new Scots-owned bank emerged from the current upheaval in the financial sector, Alex Salmond told MSPs today.
Andrew Reeves' running blog (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
We should really ask the same question of Alex Johnstone MSP and Margaret Curran MSP as well as John Lamont. All three of these MSPs now aspire to the House of Commons, one of them has a better chance than the other two and it would be great to see Margaret Curran beat the SNPs John Mason. The question I suspect you are asking yourself is why should John Lamont quit as an MSP, my answer is he shouldn't....
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
EDINBURGH (Reuters) - Wealth management could become more important for Scotland, bolstering the country's key financial sector, First Minister Alex Salmond believes.
underdogs bite upwards (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
The Righteous are on the move. They know their Labour power base is flawed and falling. There are signs of them on Tory blogs already. Over at Iain Dale's there are many who respond to Cameron's false hope of controlling EU encroachment with 'I'll be voting UKIP in future'. Followed soon after by 'Well, nobody cares what you think so go and vote for who you like'. Just as the Righteous did when Labour...
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