Mark McLaughlin

A FORMER Yes Scotland marketing director has claimed jailed ex-SNP chief Peter Murrell controlled the Yes Scotland campaign. Ian Dommett claimed Murrell controlled donations and locked the pro-inde…

Britain’s largest independent bus operator is suing Scottish ministers over allegations it misused a green bus fund to bankroll the firm’s competitors. McGill’s Buses, which is owned by the billion…

INDY campaigners Yes Scotland blasted a bid to link them to Peter Murrell’s crimes as “desperate”. The group’s ex-chief executive Blair Jenkins hit back after SNP whistleblower David Henry claimed …

A YES Scotland chief has claimed the SNP had a “tight grip” on its cash through Peter Murrell. Colin Fox also backed up allegations that senior Nats were “pulling the strings” behind the supposedly…

Squamate pregnancy is an important topic in reproductive and evolutionary biology, as it provides insight to amniote live-bearing that is not mammalian. Gene regulation in squamates is poorly characterised and the extent of molecular convergence in the developmental mechanisms of pregnancy across amniotes is strongly debated. To test the role of gene expression and alternative splicing in viviparous pregnancy in a lizard, we sequenced the uterine transcriptome of viviparous female Eurasian common lizards (Lacertidae:

THE SNP and Labour’s “hostility” to oil and gas has been blamed for energy giant BP’s decision to sell off its North Sea operation after more than half a century. The energy giant said the decision…

AMNESTY International UK has issued a grovelling apology to JK Rowling’s rape crisis centre after it was named in a dossier of organisations labelled “anti-rights”. Bosses at the human rights chari…

NICOLA Sturgeon has revealed she is writing a political thriller about a female First Minister with a “dark” secret past – but insisted it was not “autobiographical”. The former first minister pled…

A GREEN MSP who is here on a student visa wants to hire an office manager with the “right to work in the UK”. Q Manivannan filed the job ad even though the Home Office could soon rule the politicia…

EXAM passes are up but the gap between rich and poor kids passing Highers remained as wide as ever in the year the SNP vowed to wipe it out, it emerged today. The blow was revealed as more than 148…