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The Scottish Finance Secretary said she is ‘determined’ to get more cash to help the public sector fund increased contributions.

They were detained after police carried out searches in Aberdeen city centre on Wednesday.

Shell said no jobs will be lost but that the deal was in recognition that the North Sea is ‘no longer the prolific basin that it once was’.

He admitted abusing his estranged wife over the course of five years.

Emergency services were called to the incident in the Carntyne Road area on Wednesday afternoon.

A senior judge said sentencing of those with mental health and related issues can be ‘significantly more complex and challenging’.

For the last three years the Scottish Government has been forced to make in-year adjustments to its Budget.

Stephen Gethins asked Scottish Secretary Ian Murray if his party’s message north of the border is that voters should elect Labour ‘to stop Labour’.

Culture Secretary Angus Robertson welcomed a £34 million increase in funding for the sector.

Shona Robison said more people will also be pulled into paying lower rates of tax as thresholds increase by around double the rate of inflation.

Emergency services are at the scene in Wishaw, North Lanarkshire.

It comes after last year’s Scottish budget included cuts to funding for housing and planning.

Finance Secretary Shona Robison also outlined record NHS and local government funding in her tax and spending plans for 2025/26.

Scotland’s Finance Secretary Shona Robison unveiled her tax and spending plans for 2025/26 to MSPs at Holyrood on Wednesday.

The Scottish Government froze council tax last year, angering local government leaders facing financial pressures.

Rosie Millard stepped down from her role in November.

But the Education Secretary and the chief executive of the SQA told the Tory MSP they are happy with a review already carried out into the matter.

Scotland’s Finance Secretary is unveiling the Scottish Government’s tax and spending plans for 2025/26.

The incident occurred in Slateford Green, Edinburgh, at about 8pm on Monday.

The Justice Secretary said there was no particular single reason for the increase.