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Mark Macaskill

  • Being trapped in Gaza felt like a scene from Titanic, says First Minister’s mother-in-law

    Elizabeth El-Nakla said she and her husband held hands and prayed jets overhead wouldn't strike

    By Mark Macaskill 21 Nov 2023, 2:25pm
    Elizabeth El-Nakla is interviewed next to her daughter Nadia, the First Minister's wife
  • Lord Cameron can help save life of Scot detained in India, say his family

    Brother of Sikh activist facing terror charges asks Foreign Secretary to use his ‘relationship with country’s leaders to bring him home’

    By Mark Macaskill 20 Nov 2023, 5:33pm
    Jagtar Singh Johal’s brother has appealed to Lord Cameron to ‘leverage the strength of Britain’s long-standing relationship with India’
  • Church of Scotland in unholy row with parishioners after it shut 900-year-old church

    Members of the flock at Birnie Kirk accuse religious leaders of disrespecting ‘country folk’ after place of worship is closed to save cash

    By Mark Macaskill 20 Nov 2023, 5:32pm
    Birnie Kirk, which was built in 1140, is in “great condition”, according to one Kirk elder
  • Fundraisers ordered to retrieve ironing board dumped on Ben Nevis

    The board, which was used for 'extreme ironing', was photographed by a hillwalker last week, prompting an outcry

    By Mark Macaskill 20 Nov 2023, 5:27pm
    The ironing board abandoned at the top of Ben Nevis
  • Scottish Tories push for Holyrood debate over Michael Matheson’s £11,000 iPad bill

    The storm over the Scottish Health Secretary's roaming charges shows no sign of abating, but he has said he does not intend to resign

    By Mark Macaskill 20 Nov 2023, 4:36pm
    Scottish Health Secretary Michael Matheson has said he does not intend to resign
  • Ill-timed tax breaks would benefit wealthy Scots and harm public services, Hunt warned

    Scottish Finance Secretary writes to the Chancellor setting out a list of demands including an increase in Scotland's capital budget

    By Mark Macaskill 19 Nov 2023, 10:27pm
    Ms Robison is also Deputy First Minister
  • Embattled SNP minister Michael Matheson faces no confidence vote over iPad bill ‘cover-up’

    The Scottish Conservatives have indicated they will push for a vote in Holyrood amid fresh calls for the Health Secretary to resign

    By Mark Macaskill 19 Nov 2023, 5:41pm
    Humza Yousaf (left) and his embattled Health Secretary Michael Matheson at the Scottish Parliament last week
  • Independent Scotland ‘would need its own currency’ before rejoining EU

    SNP’s latest blueprint to break up Britain would mean a hard border with England and giving up sterling, says think tank

    By Mark Macaskill 17 Nov 2023, 9:18pm
    Angus Robertson published the seventh paper in the Scottish Government’s prospectus series on Friday
  • Ironing board dumped on Ben Nevis leaves walkers steaming with anger

    Pressing need for culprits to climb back up the mountain to retrieve it, says charity

    By Mark Macaskill 17 Nov 2023, 6:58pm
    The ironing board left on Ben Nevis has caused anger among some climbers
  • Energy firms back move from oil and gas, says Starmer

    Labour leader claims sector has ‘absolute clarity’ from his party on support for net zero, as he vows to make UK a green superpower

    By Mark Macaskill 17 Nov 2023, 6:35pm
    Sir Keir Starmer with Ed Miliband, the shadow energy secretary, and Anas Sarwar, the Scottish Labour leader, fourth right, at a Scottish gas terminal
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  • Humza Yousaf’s integrity on the line after SNP minister’s iPad ‘lie’, say Scottish Tories

    Douglas Ross says First Minister 'has questions to answer' about Michael Matheson’s £11,000 roaming bill for parliamentary device

    By Mark Macaskill 17 Nov 2023, 6:00pm
    Mr Matheson was visibly emotional during a personal statement to the Scottish Parliament on Thursday
  • Drivers fight back against botched Glasgow low-emission zone fines

    Dozens of motorists successfully appeal against penalties because they were sent by second-class post, rather than recorded delivery

    By Mark Macaskill 16 Nov 2023, 7:15pm
    Protest against Low Emission Zones, in George Square, Glasgow on Sept 30
  • Man and woman avoid jail after pleading guilty to racially abusing Humza Yousaf

    Carl O’Brien and Tracie Currie admit targeting the First Minister as well as his deputy and other SNP MPs

    By Mark Macaskill 16 Nov 2023, 6:14pm
    Tracie Currie and Carl O’Brien
  • Starmer: UK’s ‘unforgivable’ trade strategy is failing Scotch makers

    Labour leader describes a lack of deal with India as a ‘failure’ for whisky distilleries during Scotland visit

    By Mark Macaskill 16 Nov 2023, 5:45pm
    Sir Keir Starmer in Scottish Distillery
  • Edinburgh Castle locked down after eco activists smash Stone of Scone case

    Two women, aged 20 and 24, and one 20-year-old man, arrested in connection with the damage caused to the glass pane

    By Mark Macaskill 16 Nov 2023, 9:45am
    Activists have smashed the glass casing holding the Stone of Destiny at Edinburgh Castle
  • Chris Packham claims Scottish countryside ‘trashed by country set’

    Conservationist accuses landowners and gamekeepers of having ‘vested interest in wickedness’ of killing birds of prey

    By Mark Macaskill 14 Nov 2023, 7:30pm
    Chris Packham says he is 'amazed by the lack of prosecutions over the deaths of golden eagles and hen harriers'
  • ‘Witches and wizards’ paedophile gang found guilty of running child sex abuse ring

    Group told children their 'magic wands' would turn them into 'cats and dogs', High Court in Glasgow heard

    By Mark Macaskill 14 Nov 2023, 4:41pm
    Paul Brannan pushes Lesley Williams in a wheelchair for their child sex abuse trial at the High Court in Glasgow
  • Humza Yousaf accused of overestimating number of Ukrainian refugees living in Scotland

    The First Minister said more than 23,000 refugees arrived in the country in March 2022 but figures suggest many have since moved elsewhere

    By Mark Macaskill 10 Nov 2023, 5:41pm
    Humza Yousaf's Government has admitted that the movements of Ukrainian refugees within the UK are not monitored
  • Poppy sellers must be ‘fully protected’, says Grant Shapps

    Defence Secretary tells pro-Palestinian protesters to ‘put politics aside’, but police do not believe volunteers are targets

    By Michael Murphy 9 Nov 2023, 3:47pm
    Grant Shapps said Remembrance services ‘must go ahead without the threat of desecration or disruption’
  • Climate activists who halted cycling race say they ‘won’ after leaving court scot-free

    Protesters say they acted for the ‘greater good’ after trial concludes with official admonishment and a single fine of £250

    By Mark Macaskill 8 Nov 2023, 7:34pm
    Catriona Roberts (C) alongside Ben Taylor and Romane Moulin speak to the media outside Falkirk Sheriff Court after the trial of four people accused of disrupting an elite race at the UCI World Championships in Glasgow in August
  • Fleece of Britain’s loneliest sheep to be crafted into charity souvenirs

    Fiona is settling into a new home near Dumfries after being stranded on a remote cliff in the Scottish Highlands for two years

    By Mark Macaskill 7 Nov 2023, 3:03pm
    Fiona with two of her rescuers Cammy Wilson and Ally Williamson
  • Britain’s loneliest sheep piled on the pounds after gorging on grass

    Farmer rejects ‘misleading’ claims about Dumfries farm that Fiona now calls home, and says it is the right place for the overweight animal

    By Mark Macaskill 6 Nov 2023, 6:39pm
    Ben Best, who runs Dalscone Farm Fun, says Fiona is 'doing phenomenal' since being rescued
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