Scotland's Salmond to appear before parliament panels on policies

Key points - First Minister Alex Salmond was in the Scottish Parliament to answer questions from opposition party leaders and backbenchers. - The case of Maureen Fleming and her fight for a cancer drug not readily available was highlighted at ...

Alex Salmond and opposition party leaders united to condemn the killing of a serving soldier in Woolwich, London and to say it would not be allowed to divide Scotland's communities during first minister's questions on 23 May 2013. The first minister ...

Alex Salmond would turn an independent Scotland into an "economic pariah", former chancellor Alistair Darling

ALEX Salmond was yesterday accused of "rewriting history" after claiming the SNP had wanted to keep the pound in a separate Scotland for the past 10 years. Alex Salmond has been accused on misleading the public over his plans for the Scottish ...

Yesterday's Survation poll reported that UKIP (22%) are, for the moment, just two points behind the Tories (24%) and therefore and given the margin of error in these things possibly tied or even ahead of the senior governing party. Blimey! It is ...

The Scottish government published a paper on the national economy today that, according to Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon, makes the case for independence. You can read the pamphlet here or the BBC's summary of it here . Most of it was relatively ...

Business Secretary Vince Cable has responded to Alex Salmond by highlighting what he called "flaws" in the nationalist argument for independence. Scotland's First Minister set out the economic case for Scottish independence on Tuesday claiming the ...

By Robin Millard ,AFPLONDON -- Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond has told AFP in an interview that the economy can prosper outside the United Kingdom, despite dire warnings from London about the risks of independence. Salmond insisted that ...

Alex Salmond defended the government's record on the NHS amid accusations that Scotland was in "danger of exporting health refugees" in search of free cancer drugs, on 16 May 2013. Scottish Labour leader Johann Lamont had said Scots cancer patients ...