Gina Davidson

We’re into the last great heave as parties go all out in the final few days before the polls open - and before every postal vote gets sent off.

Long before the general election campaign kicked off, when the Labour party was still trying to win just its’ second MP in Scotland in the Rutherglen by-election, I asked Keir Starmer if it wasn’t his job to offer hope to the people of that constituency – especially those who would benefit from the scrapping of the two child cap on benefits.

It’s like watching bald men fighting over a comb, declared one Holyrood wag to me when the Scottish Conservative leadership election was engulfed in accusations of smear campaigns and bullying.

A rape crisis service in Glasgow has severed ties with the national umbrella Rape Crisis Scotland (RCS) network, saying they are “at odds” over single-sex services.

Today Alex Salmond will be laid to rest in his adopted town of Strichen in Aberdeenshire. But will he rest in peace?

Nicola Sturgeon has been accused of "shameless hypocrisy" and being an "utter fraud" after revealing she was paid £25,000 by ITN for appearing on its general election results programme in July.

Fears that tariffs could be slapped on Scotch whisky by a new Trump administration have been raised by Scotland's First Minister John Swinney who told LBC that such a move could cost jobs.

A rape crisis centre has been told to pay £70,000 to a former employee and to publicly apologise for its treatment of her, after she was forced her out of her job in a row over women-only spaces.

Scotland's First Minister has been condemned for offering his congratulations to President-Elect Donald Trump on his election victory, with Scottish Greens co-leader Patrick Harvie berating him for reaching out to a "convicted felon" and "climate denier".

Patients who were left disabled and injured by the brain surgeon Sam Eljamel are demanding the UK government try to extradite him from Libya.