Almost 400 Scots women lose their jobs every day, shock unemployment figures show Feb 16 2012 By Magnus Gardham ALMOST 400 Scots women are losing their jobs every day, it was revealed yesterday. Figures showed an overall jobless rise of 16,000 in Scotlan

In that climate, trumpeting the relative success of Scotland's labour market, compared to the rest of the UK, was always going to be a risky strategy. In November, John Swinney proclaimed Scotland's lower unemployment, higher employment and lower economi

The number of people without a job reached 231,000 in Scotland, mirroring a similar rise across the UK, where unemployment rose 48,000 to 2.67 million in the three months to December. However, the unemployment rate of 8.6 per cent north of the Border rem

The unemployment rate in Scotland rose 16,000 in the three months between October and December official figures show. Jobless figure now stands at 231,000 or 8.6 per cent of population The number of people registered as unemployed in Scotland now stands

Finance Secretary John Swinney yesterday cut the first turf at the site of the new Inverness College – hailed as Highlands’ most significant development for young people in years. The MSP marked the beginning of infrastructure works at the site of the ne

Nationalists must not be allowed to dictate to the press which words can be used to describe their policy, writes Peter Jones Ewan Crawford’s argument in The Scotsman last week (7 February) against the use of the word “separatism” and its variants to des