The signing of the Auld Alliance in 1295 might have given the Scots French support against England, but it also gave the Scottish merchants the privilege of selecting the first choice of Bordeaux ...

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In a paper to be published next year, Dr Siobhan Talbott argues the Franco-Scottish Auld Alliance of 1295 survived centuries of enmity and war between Britain and France – even after the Act of Union ...

The Scottish Parliament does not have a second chamber like the House of Lords. Instead, it has a powerful committee system which can propose as well as scrutinise bills. Committees are made up of ...

The pro-independence Scottish National Party leader said she anticipates that a vote will take place “in the earlier part” of the next Scottish parliament, which begins next year.

Had the Parliament followed the average weekly earnings index that year, the increase would have been 5.1 per cent. However, the Scottish Government confirmed ministers and Cabinet secretaries ...

And in 1707, the Act of Union came into force, doing away with the Scottish Parliament for the next nearly three hundred years. Burns deplored what he saw as an unpopular constitutional merger ...

Local MP Gregor Poynton has welcomed the latest proposals from Boundaries Scotland, which now recommend that Fauldhouse ...