"Given the need for integrity and good governance, I echo the call for a judge led inquiry. The First Minister should really agree, unless, of course, he has something to hide."
The Herald columnist Andy Maciver, a former director of communications at the Scottish Conservatives, wrote last week there was a certain 'tawdriness' over the former First Minister's repatriation.
The finance secretary has not ruled out ending the council tax freeze as she seeks to get support in Holyrood for her budget plans.
"Without my school and my teachers, I would never have gone down the music route. This made me realise how important it is for people, especially young people, to experience music."
"John Swinney should make an urgent statement to Parliament on the content of discussions between this civil servant and the now First Minister, and why such a clearly unacceptable arrangement was allowed to continue for so long."
Sandy Easdale believes Alex Salmond did put Scotland first saying lots of people didn't agree with him [on independence] but he was certainly "business minded."
Sandy Easdale told the Herald on Sunday of his fears over the potential impact of the closure of the plant amid global uncertainty with wars raging in the middle east and Ukraine.
Doubt has been cast over the independence of the inquiry into whether Nicola Sturgeon broke the ministerial code after revelations a secretariat set up to support the probe was staffed by Scottish Government civil servants.
Calls are being made for Nicola Sturgeon to face a new inquiry into whether she broke the ministerial code.
"After two years of negotiation... the SNP have lost confidence of major stakeholders. The bill is now contrary to Green values."
