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The SNP has welcomed news that Ofgem is to investigate energy providers over claims that they are misleading customers persuaded to switch supplier on their doorstep or over the phone.

Westen Isles SNP MP Angus MacNeil has welcomed the announcement from the Scottish Government that RET will be continuing after the end of the pilot project in March 2011.

Scottish Labour’s policy cupboard is bare as Labour MSPs turn on Iain Gray over the absence of strategy and policy in key areas such as the future of the council tax.

In a move raises further questions over Labour's credibility the party's alcohol commission has recommended letting Westminster deal with Scotland's alcohol problems.

The SNP have demanded clarity over the future of thousands of Scottish shipyard jobs following reports that the Coalition Government may scrap or downgrade one of the two aircraft carriers under construction.

A bid to reverse the coalition government’s refusal to include abolition of the Act of Settlement within the much lauded Freedom (Great Repeal) Bill has been mounted by an SNP MP ahead of the visit by Pope Benedict XVI.

Scotland's future will be at the heart of the campaign for the 2011 elections.

Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has called on opposition parties to put Scots health first as Parliament prepares to continue discussions on the proposal for a minimum price for alcohol.

Following on from reports today (Friday) that a ‘major’ discovery of oil in the North Sea, Aberdeen North MSP Brian Adam has renewed Prof. Josef Stiglitz call for an Oil Fund. The Nobel Prize winner and former Chief Economist of the World Bank, said on BBC Scotland’s Newsnight programme on Tuesday (24th August) that the UK had “squandered" it's oil wealth and that it is now "imperative" an oil fund is established to secure the wealth that remains under the North Sea for future generations.

SNP MP for Na h-Eileanan an Iar, Angus MacNeil, highlighted soaring fuel prices and called on the Treasury to introduce an Islands’ Rural Fuel Derogation before the January VAT hike.